Civil Society Organizations Programs and their Role in Developing Social Interaction Skills)

Abstract

The importance of the current research is embodied by the importance of the research topic, which according to the researcher’s knowledge is not addressed by an Arab or local study with the presence of a limited number of foreign studies. There are some Arab studies that have addressed the concept of social interaction with other variables, as this concept is still recent in psychological studies. and social, especially in the Arab and local environment.

The importance of this study is clear because these two concepts (civil society organizations programs, and social interaction skills) are of great importance in the process of individual growth and development, which is reflected in the development of society in general. This study aimed to identify:

1. Measuring the social interaction of workers in civil society organizations before applying the programs of civil society organizations.
2. The significance of the difference in social interaction in the research sample before and after the application of the organizations’ programs.
3. Measuring the social interaction of workers in civil society organizations after applying the programs of civil society organizations.

The current research has identified workers in civil society organizations in the center of the city of Najaf for the academic year (2021-2022) and to complete the objectives of the current research and for the purpose of measuring the social interaction skills of workers in civil society organizations, the researcher adopted the scale (Al-Tamimi 1993), which consists of (50 A paragraph divided into five areas of social interaction that were adopted according to the behavioral theory.

After extracting the psychometric characteristics of the scale, the scale consists of (36) items divided according to the areas of social interaction.

After completing the procedures related to the adoption of the (Al-Tamimi, 1993) scale of social interaction skills, the scale was applied by adopting the one group with the pre- and post-test on the research sample of (30) workers from civil society organizations, which were chosen by the intentional way after it equalized between the workers in the personal variables After analyzing the data, the following results were revealed:

A-There is social interaction for civil society organization workers before the implementation of civil society organization programs.

B -There is a statistically significant difference in social interaction on the research sample before applying the organizations' programs and after applying these programs and in favor of the post test.

C -The social interaction of workers in civil society organizations is high after the implementation of the organizations' programs.

In light of the results of the research, the researcher reached a number of recommendations and suggestions, which were mentioned in detail in the second chapter of this research.