Introduction
Social responsibility is one of the most important social characteristics that becomes more important when natural and human hazards occur. Social responsibility is one of the features that can help improve a society, because social planning and policy making will not be supported without paying attention to people’s sense of attachment to the society. Various factors can affect social responsibility. In societies where natural and man-made disasters affect people’s lives, the feeling of insecurity needs to be studied and investigated. During the COVID-19 pandemic, friends and neighbors became “familiar strangers” due to feeling insecure about getting close to each other which can affect social and economic relations. The decrease in social relations can lead to indifference, apathy, despondency, insensitivity in social life. In various theories about the feeling of insecurity, it has been emphasized that increased feeling of insecurity manifest itself in isolationist and antisocial behaviors, and destroys good human qualities such as sociability, mutual trust, feeling of belonging to the community and satisfaction from this belonging. This issue limits rational decision-making and the ability of people to control their own behavior. Tabriz was one of the cities in Iran with high infected cases during the COVID-19 pandemic due to having high number of administrative, political, and medical centers. This study, which was conducted in Tabriz city, aimed to investigate the relationship between the feeling of insecurity and social responsibility after the end of COVID-19 pandemic 

Methods
This is a quantitative survey study. Participants were 384 citizens of Tabriz aged 18-70 years old who were selected using a multi-stage cluster sampling method. We designed a social responsibility scale by using the items from the Mergler and Shield’s personal responsibility scale for adolescents, Gough’s social responsibility scale, and Nemati’s social responsibility questionnaire. It had 42 questions and seven dimensions including self-management, orderliness, legality, trustworthiness, accountability, organizability and progressiveness. To measure the feeling of insecurity, Zamani et al.’s (2021) questionnaire was used which has 9 items. In two questionnaires, the items are rated on a Likert scale from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating higher level of social responsibility and feeling of insecurity. Educational level, occupation, age and gender of participants were also recorded. The questionnaires’ reliability was confirmed according Cronbach’s α values of 0.854 (for the social responsibility scale) and 0.70 (for the feeling of insecurity scale).

Results
The mean total score of the feeling of insecurity was 24.88, which is lower than the median score. Also, the mean total score of social responsibility was 95.94, which is lower than the median score. There was a significant and inverse relationship between the feeling of insecurity and social responsibility. The social responsibility of people was significantly different based on gender, educational level and occupation. Men had higher social responsibility than women. Also, people with higher educational level had higher social responsibility. Unexpectedly, the unemployed people had higher social responsibility and those working in the public sector had lower social responsibility than other occupation groups. There was no significant difference in social responsibility based on age.

Ethical Considerations
Compliance with ethical guidelines
In this study, no experiments on animal or human samples were conducted. All publication ethics were observed.

Funding
This article was extracted from the master’s thesis of Mostafa Rostami approved by the Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Tabriz. This research did not receive any grant from the funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors.

Authors' contributions
Validation, supervision, project management: Fattaneh Hajilou and Mohammad Bagher Alizadeh Aghdam; Aanalysis, investigation, resources, initial draft preparation, visualization, editing & review: Fattaneh Hajilou and Mostafa Rostami; Conceptualization and methodology: All authors.

Conflicts of interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank all participants for their cooperation in this research.

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