How do Early Education College Students Perceive the Impact of Family Crises on Individuals’ Personality Development?

Abstract

This study was conducted to assess the impact of family crises on preschool children's development in the Arab sector in Israel; A case study covid-19. The topic demanded a thorough and vigorous investigation of all interrelated aspects. The aims and objectives were explicitly stated to make this research work valid and reliable. The variables were extracted from the main and sub-objectives for their study and accurate measurement. All the variables were operationalized by scientific ethics and the related theories were reviewed for constructing a conceptual framework for the study. The qualitative approach was used to collect and analyse qualities related to the impact of family crises on preschool children's development in the Arab sector in Israel on the one hand. On the other hand, the quantitative research approach was employed to quantify and measure the impact of family crises on preschool children's development in the Arab sector in Israel. The questionnaire was a data collection tool in a quantitative approach while the interview was a tool for qualitative data collection. The main findings of the study were, there is a significant correlation between Family crises and mental, cognitive, speech, and language, moral, emotional, and social behavior of preschool children in the Arab sector in Israel. Moreover, a correlation was found between the COVID-19 period and child development, the child’s relation with others and child development, and the child with any cognitive negative symptoms & and child development.