أثر الحرب النفسية والسلوكية على الأطفال في مرحلة التعليم الأساسي في اليمن "منطقة بني الحارث في أمانة العاصمة نموذجاً " د.نبيلة علي أحمد الشويع*

Abstract

The present study aimed to identify the impact of psychological and behavioral warfare on children in basic education in the district of Bani Al-Harith, Sana'a City, Yemen as a model. "The researcher adopted the descriptive method for her study using a questionnaire as a tool for collecting data. The sample from which the data was collected comprised (444)students. Findings revealed that the amount of psychological and behavioral impact was high with means ranging between (1.07-1.85). The highest value was for the symptoms of expectation of the worst and the lowest value was for hatred. Differences were high in favor of females in the expectation of the worst (1.46) and behavioral actions ((1.59), and low in fear symptoms (1.18)and obsessions (1.27). Also, the differences were higher among government school students in their expectation of the worst (1.88), and were higher in the psychological impact as a whole (1.52) and the physical pain (1.53) among those who live near the bombed locations. The differences also appeared in favor of students who did not experience symptoms of stress (1.24), pessimism (1.66), and behavioral impact as a whole (1.42), and in favor of those who were not injured or had no martyred in his family in introversion (1.39), suspicion (1.56), and obsessions (1.33), and hatred (1.08). Similarly, the differences were in favor of those who had no injured friend in suspicion (1.58),stress (1.25), pessimism (1.69),the expectation of the worst (1.89), psychological impact as a whole (1.50), disorders (1.47),and behavioral impact as a whole (1.43), meaning that the symptoms of psychological and behavioral impact were an inverse function with those who were injured or had a martyred in their family or among their friends at the time of bombing.

Keywords: warfare, psychological impact, behavioral impact, children, basic education stage.