Behavioral Problems Among Refugee Students With Learning Difficulties In Jordan And Their Relationship To Some Variables

Abstract

The study aimed to identify behavioral problems among refugee students with learning difficulties in Jordan, and whether these problems differ according to the child's gender, age, the field of his academic learning difficulties or the duration of the asylum, the study sample consisted of (148) Syrian refugee students with learning difficulties, and to achieve the study objectives, the study followed a descriptive approach, and to achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers developed a tool consisting of (45) distributed equally on three dimensions: emotional behavioral problems, educational behavioral problems, and social behavioral problems, and the researchers verified the indications of its truthfulness and consistency.

The results showed a high level of behavioral problems in all its dimensions, which came after emotional behavioral problems and after educational behavioral problems in the first rank of the responses of the study sample, followed by social behavioral problems in the second place. The results also showed that there were significant differences in the overall degree of behavioral problems depending on the gender variable of students in favor of male students, the age variable in favor of those less than 9 years old, and the duration of asylum variable in favor of those whose asylum period was less than 10 years. The results did not show any significant differences in the dimensions of behavioral problems depending on the variable of the field of learning difficulty, except after educational behavioral problems, where the differences appeared depending on the field of learning difficulty and in favor of those who have learning difficulty in reading.