Anxiety-Inducing Media: The Effect of Constant News Broadcasting on the Well-Being of Israeli Television Viewers

Bodas, Moran; Siman‐Tov, Maya; Peleg, Kobi; Solomon, Zahava

doi:10.1080/00332747.2015.1069658

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“…The lack of such research is surprising, as media exposure is typically detrimental, even when people were only exposed to the media coverage of terrorism but were not exposed to an actual terror incident at all. In such cases, media exposure alone was associated with increased PTSD symptom levels (Holman, Garfin, & Silver, ) or increased anxiety (Bodas et al, ). In addition to the above, the current study examined additional correlates of ISIS anxiety to gain better insight into the ISIS anxiety profile.…”

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“…ISIS media is neither banned by governments nor is its viewing discouraged by mental health professionals. Although research from other contexts suggest that media exposure both to natural disasters (Goodwin, Palgi, Hamama-Raz, & Ben-Ezra, 2013;Goodwin, Palgi, Lavenda, Hamama-Raz, & Ben-Ezra, 2015), as well as to terrorist attacks (Ahern et al, 2002;Bodas et al, 2015;Pfefferbaum et al, 2000), may have deleterious effects, at least in the short term (Neria & Sullivan, 2011), exposure to ISIS media was not studied. The lack of such research is surprising, as media exposure is typically detrimental, even when people were only exposed to the media coverage of terrorism but were not exposed to an actual terror incident at all.…”

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“…Non‐ISIS media exposure referred to consumption of media depicting Palestinian terror attacks. Media exposure to terror has been found to be related with higher anxiety (Bodas, Siman‐Tov, Peleg, & Solomon, ). Thus, media exposure to Palestinian terrorist attacks in the current terror‐wave may be related to higher ISIS anxiety.…”

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Who is afraid of ISIS? ISIS anxiety and its correlates

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2017

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is a relatively small organization, yet it wields its terror and media campaigns efficiently. Its presence has altered security measures in many western counties. In the current study, I assess anxiety of the ISIS threat and its correlates in a convenience sample of 1,007 adult Israelis (mean age = 29.61, SD = 7.16). Findings show that being female, a lower socioeconomic status, and having elevated post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom levels were all associated with ISIS anxiety. Likewise, exposure to ISIS media, as well as having low resilience, was also correlated with ISIS anxiety. The correlations between ISIS anxiety on the one hand and ISIS media exposure, PTSD symptoms, and resilience on the other hand remained significant even after controlling for general anxiety symptoms. Finally, the PTSD-ISIS anxiety relationship was especially pronounced when resources (resilience/ optimism) were low. This critical interaction also remained significant after controlling for general anxiety. Theoretical and practical ramifications of ISIS anxiety are discussed. Both resources for addressing current tasks (resilience), as well as those aimed at future outcomes (optimism), may be required for addressing ISIS anxiety, especially when PTSD symptoms are high. | The ISIS threatVia its media campaigns, ISIS conveys its vision of a future world where Islam prevails; this will be achieved by waging a holy war of terror against nonbelievers to establish the new caliphate (Lister, 2015). This threat may be transferred via social contagion effects of social media, where individuals share their comments to ISIS attacks or ISIS media with other viewers (Ekwenchi, Ononiwu, & Efetobor, 2016). Social contagion has been shown to intensify the feeling of threat following terror attacks (Lin & Margolin, 2014).Given the massive impact of the ISIS media campaign (Lowe, 2015), the putative ISIS-related anxiety should be an important research focus, yet to the best of my knowledge, no study has systematically assessed ISIS anxiety. Therefore, the current study aims to address ISIS anxiety in Israel, where the future threat dimension is very salient for the following reasons: first, the presence of ISIS terrorists is 1 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/25/world/map-isis-attacksaround-the-world.html 2 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3700942/ISIS-attacks-France-newpropaganda-videos.html

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“…Research findings are not all in agreement on the issue of whether or not exposure to constant media coverage of fearful and traumatic events may cause full-fledged PTSD (Bodas, Siman-Tov, Peleg, & Solomon, 2015). Some researchers indicate findings that do not support a strong link between such exposure and the development of psychopathology (Galea and colleagues as quoted in Bodas, Siman-Tov, Peleg, & Solomon, 2015).…”

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Collective Trauma and National Behavior in Times of Threat—The Israeli Public and the 2014 War in Gaza

Keynan¹

2016

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This paper analyzes the impact of past trauma on national behavior in times of threat, applying Volkan's (2001, 2004) theory of multigenerational impact of trauma on large groups, and La Capra's (2014) theory of the use of the concept of individuals' trauma for understanding the behavior of traumatized collectives. The study of the Israeli response to the abduction and murder of three teenagers in summer 2014 is consistent with these theories, and shows how a collective with trauma in its past behaves similarly to a posttraumatic person. The paper contends that due to its traumatic past, the Jewish Israeli public perceived a tragic but limited (from a national security standpoint) hostile action as a grave collective threat, which invoked past demons and brought back existential fears. These feelings were inflamed by the Israeli media and leaders, paving the way for an escalation of the event into an armed battle.

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“…are determined according to the symbol, which emancipate from the agent and are the real personality. Bodas et al (2015) research on effects of negative television contents on Israelis, the results showed that televised traumatic content and negative perception of broadcasts are directly associated increase of anxiety and psychopathology issues.…”

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Inspiration and Insinuation Influences on Human Thinking and Behavior: A Psychoanalytical, Psychodynamic, and Cognitive Phenomenon

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Is insinuation one of the most influential phenomena in the early and continuous development of human behavior? Yes. Does previous scientific study give ample of time to understand unconsciousness and its manifestation from this point of view? No. As we have demonstrated in the following pages, insinuation does hold a high view in the divine scriptures as an opposite to inspiration. The scientific views on unconsciousness theory further ascertained its influence on human activities. A number of scientists however, denounced this clear evidence due to lack of laboratory prove of inspiration-cum-insinuation effects rather termed unconsciousness. In this essay, through dedicated analysis using both induction and deduction methods we showed that their theories failed to study unconsciousness from a holistic perspective. It only focused on those that have psychological and psychopathological problems in exclusion of reasonable human beings, thus, contained numerous errors that even contradicted their scientific findings. Following in-depth and dedicated analysis, we showed the influences of unseen phenomena that are beyond human control from Islamic philosophy viewpoints affirming earlier biblical claims of insinuation influences. We concluded by mentioning some of the physical evidences justified by the Islamic scripture "Qur'an" and some of the implications of these findings for certain aspects of the contemporary "inspiration and insinuation debates".

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Anxiety-Inducing Media: The Effect of Constant News Broadcasting on the Well-Being of Israeli Television Viewers

Abstract: Increased viewing patterns of televised traumatic content, as well as negative perception of such broadcasts, are associated with the report of anxiety symptoms or psychopathology. The public health implications of the findings are discussed.

Cited by 68 publications

References 24 publications

Who is afraid of ISIS? ISIS anxiety and its correlates

Who is afraid of ISIS? ISIS anxiety and its correlates

Collective Trauma and National Behavior in Times of Threat—The Israeli Public and the 2014 War in Gaza

Inspiration and Insinuation Influences on Human Thinking and Behavior: A Psychoanalytical, Psychodynamic, and Cognitive Phenomenon

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