TITLE:
Social Responsibility Among Palestinians
AUTHORS:
Bassam Yousef Ibrahim Banat, Hasan Barmil, Bashir Ahmad
KEYWORDS:
Social Responsibility, Community Sense, Civil Society, Palestine
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.7,
July
26,
2022
ABSTRACT: The current study aimed to identify social
responsibility as perceived by Palestinians. Social responsibility among
Palestinians was evaluated using an index of a 40-item scale developed by the
researches, and was administrated to three hundred and eighty-four Palestinians
in the West Bank, Palestine using the
stratified random method. Findings revealed that Palestinians experienced
a high level of social responsibility (M 3.74, SD 0.38). This was evident through several indicators, the most important of
which were: the respondents’ assertion that community development is the
responsibility of every citizen, they care about what others think of
their behavior, and that every person has the right to express his/her opinion
even if the majority of people have a different
opinion. The study indicated that gender, place of residency, educational
level, membership of civil society institutions, and age were significant
predictors of social responsibility among Palestinians.