Critical Factors Affecting Readiness to Change and Improving Civic Engagement in the Libyan National Security

Abstract

With the increase demand for a more security in the society due to the increase of threats, governments should be commended for its efforts to incorporate more citizen involvement into national security programs. Empowering the central government is one of the steps to enhance the national security in countries that suffering from national crises management. One of the main forks in these efforts is the supporting society or environment in which civil are participating and engaged to the government effort to restabilising the national security. The main aim of identifying the critical factors of civic engagement and readiness to change in national security efforts from the citizens. The theoretical framework for this study includes three theories: theory of planned behaviour, theory social intelligence theory, and theory of change. This research is adopting the scientific approach as an organized step begins with determining and defining an issue and formulating a tentative hypothesis and ends up with evaluating of the hypotheses. In addition, the study is a quantitative approach in which original data will be collected via a questionnaire. Population of the study is all Libyan citizens who are aged 18 years and aboveestimated 4,713,534 people based on the recent reports. The proper sample size is 384 as estimated by Morgan equation. Data collection used the direct collection by the researcher team by using a printed survey. A questionnaire in Arabic is derived from literature and tested for validity and reliability by using content validity, face validity, and pilot study. The number of collected cases is 460 and the valis sample size is 386. For this study we mainly have eight variable which are attitude toward participants (ATP), civic engagement (CE), government social responsibility (GSS), readiness to change (RTC), social awareness (SA), self-esteem (SE), subjective norms (SN) and trust (TR). On the other hand, for Cronbach’s alpha reliability, the values are ranging between 0.832 and 0.907. Which show adequate, and good levels of internal consistency.