TOWARDS A FUTURE MEASURE FOR BUILDING A QUALITY OF LIFE SCALE IN BEDOUIN COMMUNITIES IN NORTH SINAI GOVERNORATE

Authors

1 Dept. Econ. and Rural Develop.. Fac. Environ. Agric. Sci., Arish Univ., Egypt.

2 Dept. Family Manag. & Childhood Instit., Fac. Home Econ., Arish Univ., Arish, Egypt.

3 Dept. Agric. Econ., Fac. Agric., Fayoum Univ., P.O. 63514, Egypt.

Abstract

The quality of life is the only way to the well-being of the entire Communities, life usually exists where a group of individuals gather to form a group linked to each other by various ties, and there is no doubt that achieving this quality for each of those combined individuals means achieving it for the whole Communities. The term "quality of life" is one of the modern concepts of an issue that has preoccupied humanity since ancient times. The current study aims to build a quantitative measure of the quality of life in Bedouin societies so that it has indications of stability and validity acceptable. The study problem is represented in the historical development of the Egyptian village due to the accompanying social, economic and political changes and transformations, the most important of which are the problems of overpopulation, the problems resulting from poverty and low living standards, the problems of rural urban growth, the encroachment on agricultural lands, the problems of production and the fragmentation of agricultural tenure and unemployment, the problems of illiteracy, education and culture which are the obstacles that impede the development efforts being made to advance them. The data necessary for legalization and testing stability and honesty were collected from 270 household out of the total number of families in the villages of Rummana,and 6th October in North Sinai Governorate egypt, through the design of a questionnaire form prepared to collect. The results of standardizing the scale showed that it consists in its final form of 105 phrases, with a high degree of reliability and validity, where the value of the reliability coefficient of the Spearman-Brown method and the Guttmann coefficient and the internal consistency of the facronbach coefficient were 0.808%, 0.805% and 0.904%, respectively. The study may be recommended through the concept of scale, including its description of the quality of Bedouin life, as it may serve as a scientific basis for those in charge of planning and implementing development programs and projects, as they can build their plans and programs in the light of realistic indicators of the quality of life in the areas targeted for development to improve the level of quality of life in the Bedouin community. The Egyptian, by providing the physiological, social, and human needs and phsychological, for a better future for the individual and Communities, and to pay attention to the role of agricultural extension by educating citizens to reduce population growth and urban sprawl and the fragmentation of agricultural holdings and attention to the stages of development, whether planning, implementation and evaluation.

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