The relationship of the use of mobile phones by heads of rural families to the change in their social behavior in the old and new rural communities in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate

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Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, -Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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degree of using the mobile phone by heads of rural households between the two research samples in each of the old and new rural communities. Determine the significant difference between the respondents from the two research samples in terms of the change in each of the studied social behavior activities، and the change in social behavior in general. Determine the significant relationship between the degree of respondents' use of the mobile phone، and the degree of change in each of the studied social behavior activities، and the change in social behavior in general. The research was conducted on two samples consisting of 387 respondents from the heads of rural families، of whom 269 were respondents from the old rural communities، which were taken from two villages of the Hamul center، namely the villages of Al-Zafaran and Al-Abadiyya Al-Bahariya، and 118 respondents from the new rural communities، which were taken from two villages from the Hamoul center، which are my villages Freedom 61، and el manawfa elqblya، and data were collected using a personal interview questionnaire prepared for this purpose، and the data was unpacked and analyzed statistically using numerical inventory tables، percentages، the mean score، Pearson's simple correlation coefficient، and the (T) test. Findings were as Follows: There is a significant difference between the respondents from the two research samples in terms of the degree of their use of the mobile phone in favor of the respondents in the old rural communities. There is a significant difference between the respondents from the two research samples in terms of the change in each of the studied social behavior activities، and the change in social behavior in general. There is a significant relationship between the degree of respondents' use of the mobile phone، and the degree of change in each of the studied social behavior activities، and the change in social behavior in general.

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