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The Journal of Media and Social Studies for Specialized Researches is issued quarterly by the Malaysian Institute of Science and Development (MISD), it is considered valuable achievement for SIATS institute to establish this journal in order to serve the issues of nations and human society’s. The journal contributes significantly in research and development through publishing distinguished researchers according to the scientific publishing standards. The journal is an outcome of collaborations between a distinguished community of leading academics and researchers from Arabic, Islamic and Western world.
Journal Goals :
To encourage the scientific research in the Arabic and Islamic universities, as well to provide the opportunity for researchers to publish their scientific researchers.
To contribute in producing continuous and specialized researchers in the areas of media, communication, and social sciences.
Encouraging the creative researches and competition between researchers which will contribute to improve the researcher’s skills and researcher’s
Dr. Faiza Salem Grifa
Abstract:
The study aimed to investigate the impact of social stigma on those survivors from infection with the emerging coronavirus.
Is there a difference in the impact of social stigma according to age and gender variables and the identification of proposals to reduce social stigma? The researcher followed the pattern of analytical descriptive studies, and a questionnaire was designed to collect data from the study sample whose size reached (30) of the survivors persons, whose age ranged from (18 to 63 ) years old, with an arithmetic mean of (42.7) years, and a standard deviation of (15.5), The study found that the effect of social stigma on those survivors, from infection with the emerging corona virus was high, and this is indicated by the relative strength, reaching (83.26) %) with a weighted average (116.3), and a standard deviation (29.49). The results of the study also showed that there are differences in the levels of the effect of social stigma due to the gender variable in favor of females, and the absence of a variation in the levels of the social stigma effect according to the age variable up to the level of moral significance.
Keywords: social stigma, people survivors, coronavirus, Libya.