Factors Influencing Attitudes and Adjustment of Returnee Graduates in Jordan

Summary

This study is an attempt to identify factors influencing adjustment, attitudes toward family life and social relations, and attitudes toward political and economic issues of Jordanian returnee engineering graduates (N = 470). Those factors included the returnee's age, sex, marital status, place of graduation, length of time since return to Jordan, religion, and socialization (in a village or a city). With the use of multiple regression analyses it was found that the largest proportion of variance explained was in returnees' attitudes toward family life and social relations, the least in their adjustment patterns. In addition, length of time since return and place of graduation were the most salient in explaining variation in returnees' attitudes.