Traumatic experiences and its relationship to social support of widowed Women's in sebhau city

Abstract

The aim of this research is to know the relationship between traumatic experiences and social support among widowed women in Sebha, and it also aims to identify the level of each of their traumatic experiences and social support, and it also aims to identify the differences according to the following variables: (age - years of widowhood - educational level  - work - the number of children) on each of the traumatic experiences and social support, and in this research the descriptive analytical method was used to describe and analyze the phenomenon, and the research community included all widowed women in the city of Sebha, and the total number of widows was (320), and the research sample consisted of (216) widows  They were chosen intentionally by some state institutions (education - health - charities - other bodies), and the tools used in the research are: the scale of traumatic experiences prepared by the researcher, and the scale of social support prepared by the researcher, and to verify the hypotheses of the research, statistics were used (  Pearson correlation coefficient, two-sample "t" test, one-sample "t" test, simple variance) and the research reached the following results:

 1- There are statistically significant differences in the level of traumatic experiences among widowed women in Sebha, in favor of the average sample.

2- There are statistically significant differences in the level of social support for widowed women in the city of Sabha, in favor of the average sample.

3- There is no statistically significant relationship between traumatic experiences and social support among widowed women in Sebha.

4- There are statistically significant differences in the traumatic experiences of widowed women in the city of Sebha due to the age variable, in favor of those whose age (less than 40 years), and there are statistically significant differences The social support of widowed women is attributed to the age variable in favor of those whose age is (less than 40 years, 51 years and above).

 5- There are statistically significant differences in the traumatic experiences of widowed women in the city of Sebha due to the variable years of widowhood in favor of those widowed for years (10 years), and there are no statistically significant differences In the social support of widowed women in the city of Sebha due to the variable years of widowhood.

 6- There are no statistically significant differences in the traumatic experiences and social support of widowed women in the city of Sebha due to the educational level variabl.

7- There are statistically significant differences in the traumatic experiences of widowed women in the city of Sebha due to the work variable in favor of those widowed Women who (do not work), and there are statistically significant differences in social support due to the work variable in favor of widowed women who (work).

8-There are no statistically significant differences in the traumatic experiences and social support of widowed women in the city of Sebha due to variable number of children