Table 2.
Aid-workers demographics, work experience, and relationship with their organizations.
| Demographics | Range | M | SD | N | Percent | - | - | - |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex: Male | 137 | 43.2 | - | - | - | |||
| Female | 180 | 56.8 | - | - | - | |||
| Age | 19–68 | 29.32 | 7.91 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Years of education | 4–26 | 15.83 | 2.37 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Income: High | 21 | 6.5 | - | - | - | |||
| Medium | 204 | 64.5 | - | - | - | |||
| Low | 92 | 29.0 | - | - | - | |||
| Marital Status: Single | 166 | 52.4 | - | - | - | |||
| Married | 144 | 45.3 | - | - | - | |||
| Separated/Divorced | 7 | 2.3 | - | - | - | |||
| Years of marriage | 0–49 | 3.68 | 7.24 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Number of children | 0–13 | 0.97 | 1.84 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Religion: Muslim | 302 | 95.2 | - | - | - | |||
| Christian | 11 | 3.5 | - | - | - | |||
| Druze | 3 | 1.0 | - | - | - | |||
| Other | 1 | 0.3 | - | - | - | |||
| Work Experience | - | - | - | |||||
| Employment: Worked full time | 268 | 84.7 | - | - | - | |||
| Part time | 25 | 7.8 | - | - | - | |||
| Volunteered | 24 | 7.5 | - | - | - | |||
| Years of experience | 0–45 | 3.09 | 5.54 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Number of refugees served per average week | 1–5000 | 424.77 | 633.56 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hours worked each week | 1–100 | 35.79 | 15.72 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hours of inquiries each week | 1–70 | 27.35 | 16.06 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Agency Relationship Evaluations (Responses in Likert Format): | Very high | High | Moderate | Low | Very low | |||
| Feeling connected to the NGO | 1–5 | 2.19 | .887 | 24.0% | 40.3% | 29.3% | 5.7% | 0.6% |
| Believing in the NGOs ideologies | 1–5 | 2.12 | .878 | 26.5% | 40.9% | 28% | 3.2% | 1.3% |
| The extent of satisfaction from what they do at work | 1–5 | 2.51 | .898 | 13.6% | 33.4% | 43.7% | 6.6% | 2.2% |
| The extent of helping others at work make them continue doing it | 1–4 | 1.98 | .839 | 31.9% | 42.2% | 21.7% | 4.1% | 0% |
Number of refugees served on average per week includes speaking to refugees, distribution of food and other items, especially that 64% of aid-workers worked in refugee camps, wherein high volume of encounters with refugees occur.