Measuring Gratitude of the Sample of Displaced people in Baghdad city

Abstract

Displacement is a problem that worries the human conscience and has received the attention of the international community. Furthermore, it has become one of the most urgent issues nowadays, especially when the number of displaced people in different countries are increased because of the causes of displacement and their political, economic, environmental, social and psychological effects. Iraq is one of the countries where displacement has taken place in several governorates, according to United Nations and International Organization for Migration (IOM), Iraq is considered the second largest country in the world after Syria in terms of the number of displaced people in 2015. Gratitude, a positive emotional response to benevolence, is a moral emotion, gratitude stems from the perception that one has benefited due to the actions of another person. There is an acknowledgement that one has received a gift and an appreciation of and recognition of the value of that gift. The gift is something of value given to one unearned and undeserved by one moral agent at some cost to that agent and for the benefit of the recipient. The current research deals with: 1- Measuring Gratitude of the displaced people. 2. Knowing the differences of a level of Gratitude according to: Gender, Age - (18-34) (35-50) and Academic achievement. The study focused on the sample of displaced people who live in the camps of Baghdad governorate they were distributed over the city to reach 400 displaced one. A legal translated version tool proved its psychometric properties was used in this study Results: A. displaced people have a high-level of grateful feeling statistically significant according to their age, gender and academic achievement. - No statistically significant differences according to the variables of gender, age and academic achievement.