SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FACTORS INFLUENCING CHANGING ROLES IN EGYPTIAN FAMILIES

Document Type : Review Article

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1 Post graduate student at Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, Ain Shams University

2 Girl's College, Ain Shams University

3 Faculty of Social Work- Helwan University

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The aim of the current research is to reveal the effect of social and cultural factors on changing roles within the family. Roles within the Egyptian family have changed more than in the past due to economic pressures on the Egyptian family, which called for one parent to go to work or both and depend on their children to participate in the family, without discrimination between males and females Social change also caused the Egyptian family to change roles and to move to a new type or form of family structure, namely the nuclear or small family, which became self-dependent in meeting needs without the large family interfering in decisions concerning the family. Also, cultural beliefs about family participation have changed clearly within the Egyptian family, allowing children to participate in private decisions, take their opinions and give them the freedom to express their thoughts. This led to the interest of the researchers in conducting a field study on a group of 260 families living in the Al-Zuhur district in the governorate of Port Said. The researchers used the descriptive method and a questionnaire was applied to the sample study. The study showed that there is a significant correlation between social factors and changing roles within the Egyptian family, which is a direct correlation, and there is a significant correlation between economic factors and changing roles within the Egyptian family, which is a direct correlation, and there is a significant correlation between cultural factors and changing roles within the Egyptian family, which is A direct correlation relationship, there is a statistically significant relationship between social, cultural and economic factors and roles in families according to the gender variable, study recommends that the study should be conducted on other samples of society to find out the change that befell Egyptian families in light of the emerging circumstances of the emergence of crises and epidemics that may threaten the lives of many families, conducting research dealing with the relationship of family roles with some other psychological and social variables.

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Journal of Environmental Science
Volume 51, Issue 10 - Serial Number 10
part.1: Environmental Humanities Sciences:
October 2022
Pages 1-38

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