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Passion relations among youth in Syria: a comparative study of Secondary School and University students.
Auther : Ali Watfa , Maha Zahlook
The study aims to define the nature and levels of social and passion relations between male and female young Syrians, namely friendship, love or sentimental relationship.
To define the youth attitudes towards this relation, a broad representative sample of 223 subjects from both sexes was taken from a population of 800 students from both Tartous Secondary School and the University of Damascus. The study was carried out in July and August 1992, within the activities of the Scientific Education Camp held annually by the Faculty of Education of the University of Damascus.
The basic survey steps of an empirical-field research method were applied to define the phenomenon procedurally. The field indicators were derived from a questionnaire addressed to a broad range of Syrian youth. Field data was treated using the descriptive and deductive methods, and computer facilities were drawn on in the recording and analysis tasks.
The study revealed that youth are facing challenges regarding their attitude towards passion. Furthermore, the following significant findings were reached:
- The human attitudes adopted by the Syrian youth towards the opposite sex are
comparatively liberal.
- Junior students, of the Secondary School level, have more modern values regarding the relation between both sexes - especially friendship among both sexes and the importance of pre-marital love - as compared to their more senior colleagues.
Foremost among .the suggestions proposed by this study, is the necessity of carrying out further studies and researches, and organizing symposia on the relation between both sexes at all levels, especially in the social field.