Crowd behaviour in a ritual based mass gathering and reliability of scale measurement

• Main Authors: Abdul Ghani, Noraida, Ahmad Hatta, Zulkarnain, Mohd Hashim , Intan Hashimah, Sulong, Jasni, Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana, Abdul Rahman, Shukran, Mat Saad , Zarina
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: BF176 Psychological tests and testing; BF636 Applied psychology; HM1001 Social psychology; HM711 Groups and organizations
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/37834/2/IISES_2014_Proceeding-2-2-714.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/37834/3/IISES_2014_Conference_Program.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/37834/; http://proceedings.iises.net/index.php?action=proceedingsIndexConference&id=2&page=3

Hajj is an annual mass gathering of Muslim pilgrims in Mecca. The understanding of crowd behaviour during this ritual based mass gathering from the psychosocial perspective is inadequately highlighted in the literature. Based on the initial interviews with pilgrims, three main components of crowd be...