Feeling of stigma and its relation to family functioning among ‎released ‎women debtors

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Department Case Work - Faculty of Social Work - Helwan University

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This study aimed to determine the nature of the relationship between ‎the feeling of stigma and the family functioning of women debtors who ‎are released from prison. It also aimed to come up with indicators of a ‎proposed role to be practiced in alleviating the feeling of stigma and ‎improving the family functioning of the released women debtors. The ‎study concepts were determined in ‎‏)‏feeling of stigma and family ‎functioning). The sample of this study consisted of (45) released ‎women debtors. This study belongs to the descriptive studies to ‎determine the nature of the relationship between ‎two variables, i.e., the ‎feeling of stigma and the family functioning of women debtors, ‎implementing the social survey method‏ ‏based on intentional sample. ‎The tools of the study included demographic information questionnaire, ‎stigma scale, and the family functioning scale that has four dimensions ‎‎(solidarity, interaction, commitment, and intrafamily coping strategies‏(‏‎. ‎The study results concluded that there is a statistically significant ‎inverse relationship at a significant level (0.01) between the feeling of ‎stigma and the family functioning of the released women debtors.‎

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