{"id":21048,"date":"2024-06-08T18:50:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=21048"},"modified":"2024-06-09T04:18:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T04:18:09","slug":"exclusive-nearly-40-of-afghan-youths-aimless-over-60-lead-purposeful-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/06\/exclusive-nearly-40-of-afghan-youths-aimless-over-60-lead-purposeful-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Nearly 40% of Afghan youths aimless, over 60% lead purposeful lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

KABUL (SW) – Findings of a latest Salam Watandar survey show that 39.1% of the surveyed youths lead their lives without specific goals while 60.9% of the other are following\u00a0 purposeful life.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Salam Watandar conducted a survey with 305 young people from 12 provinces of the country in order to investigate the level of goal-setting in the lives of Afghan youths.<\/p>\n

Findings of this survey show the 39.1 percent of young people who do not have a goal in life consider the ban on education, unfavorable working conditions in Afghanistan, and lack of motivation in the country as the reasons that prevented them from achieving their goals.<\/p>\n

Among the young people who live aimlessly, 75.8% did not have a clear reason for their aimlessness and 24.1% are aimless because they have no hope for the future.<\/p>\n

24-year-old Zabihullah, a resident of Taluqan central of Takhar province, said: ” I am one of the shopkeepers in the city. I studied for 18 years and got my master’s degree. The goal in Afghanistan is to survive, considering these conditions, it is very important to me.”<\/p>\n

Another participant, Roya, a residents of Jowzjan, said: “I was in the 12th grade of school when the schools were closed. At that time, I had many goals. Unfortunately, all the goals ended with the arrival of the [Islamic Emirate]. While I was in school, I wanted to become a doctor, but it didn’t happen.”<\/p>\n

Among the young people who live with specific goals, 64.3% mentioned educational goals, 21.6% career advancement, 7.5% immigration, 4.8% getting rich and 1.6% personal improvement as their goals.<\/p>\n

Khatima, a resident of Kabul and a graduate of English literature, stated: “I have a goal and my goal is to reach one of the foreign countries to continue my education for the master’s degree.”<\/p>\n

Gholam Sakhi, a resident of Sar-e Pol and a graduate of journalism, said he has specific goals for his academic future. “Fortunately, I have a bachelor’s degree in journalism. I want to be promoted to master’s and doctorate levels.”<\/p>\n

However, sociologists consider young people as the basic pillar of a society and say that their activity has an important impact on the development of society.<\/p>\n

Sociologist Shafiqullah Ansari said: “Having a goal makes the youth motivated for their work, they feel a lot of responsibility and it is effective in economic growth. If the youth do not have a goal, we will witness social problems and these aimless youths may lead to addiction and witness a decrease grow economically.”<\/p>\n

Psychologists say that the current situation has affected the concentration of young people and this makes them unable to think about their goals.<\/p>\n

Hussain Kazemi, a researcher on psychological counseling issues, told Salam Watandar: “Not having a goal, lack of concentration and when a person is not in a good state of mind, he cannot concentrate. And, this does not resolve anything if one just sit in the corner and not have a goal. We can accept everything and create it with the conditions.”<\/p>\n

In this survey, the gender of the respondents was also examined, 58% of the participants were female and 42% were male.<\/p>\n

The literacy level of the participants included 42.6% current students, 32.7% bachelors, 17% 12th high school graduates and 7.54% illiterate.<\/p>\n

Regarding the age groups, 30.16% were between 15 to 20 years old, 45.9% of the participants were between 20 to 25 years old, 13.11% between 25 to 30 years old, and 10.81% between 30 to 35 years old.<\/p>\n

While the findings of Salam Watandar’s survey show that there is no goal for nearly 40% of the Afghan youths participated in the survey, the rate of people migrating from the country has also increased after the recent upheavals.<\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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