“Bad Things Happened”: How Children of the Digital Age Make Sense of Violent Current Events

Zakai, Sivan

doi:10.1080/00377996.2018.1517113

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“…Another important factor contributing to ASD is the amount of time students spend watching disturbing news footage, especially on issues like the war in Gaza, which could have momentous consequences for their mental and emotional health. 34,44 The current study results showed various degrees of stress correlated to the duration of watching the news footage, the longer the students watched the higher stress level they exhibited. This is consistent with previous researches that explore the potential effects based on the length of exposure, it is well documented that any exposure will cause stress, and a short exposure to distressing news footage could cause an increase in anxiety levels.…”

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confidence: 55%

“…These emotional responses have been detailed in the namouras research study after news coverage of various kinds of disasters and violence. 34,42,44 Moreover, students stated that the major source of their stress comes from the nature of the content related to the conflict in Gaza on social media platforms which repeatedly comprises realistic pictures and videos illustrating victims and destruction. This exposure raised their levels of fear, anxiety, and distress.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Research has shown that repeated exposure to violent or traumatic content could contribute to intensifying feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. 34,44 The excessive and often unfiltered content probably will make it mostly impactful on adolescents. 24 Additionally, some students specified that their primary source of ASD is the absence of social support.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Acute Stress Disorders Among Jordanian Adolescents After Watching Gaza News Footage on Social Media

Al-Maghaireh,

Shawish,

Alsaqer

et al. 2024

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Background:The ongoing conflict in Gaza has led to a surge in acute stress among individuals who are exposed to distressing images and videos daily via social media. Aim: This study aimed to examine the impact of watching Gaza news footage on social media among Jordanian adolescents, and explore the experiences of watching Gaza news footage on social media from the perspective of adolescents. Methods: An explanatory mixed methods design was conducted from 10/10/2023 until 6/11/2023, undertaken at two government high schools in Jordan. The Perceived Stress Scale was used to survey 180 Jordanian students who watched Gaza news footage on social media. Then the students who had high stress levels were interviewed. Results: 180 students participated in this study, more than half of them were male (52.2%). The quantitative findings showed that the students experienced high stress levels, with a mean score of 3.78 (SD = 1.24). 70% of students reported high levels of stress, the amount of time spent watching news footage about the Gaza attack on social media each day, and the presence of social support from family or peers are significantly linked to stress levels (p < 0.05). The qualitative findings revealed the following themes: Extreme Emotional Responses, Sources of Stressors and Impact of Stress Extreme Emotional Responses, Sources of Stressors and Impact of Stress. Conclusion: Study findings revealed high stress levels among adolescents after watching Gaza news on social media, highlighting the need for interventions in the context of the three major themes revealed in the study.

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Acute Stress Disorders Among Jordanian Adolescents After Watching Gaza News Footage on Social Media

Al-Maghaireh,

Shawish,

Alsaqer

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“…These findings suggested that pictures can be a suitable method for conveying powerful messages. Abstract concepts, such as peace and war, are comprehensible even to young children (Ahmad, 2018;Jabbar & Betawi, 2019;Walker et al, 2003;Yilmaz, 2018;Zakai, 2019).…”

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Interpolating Peace in the Curriculum: How Peace Education is Feasible Through Art among Malaysian Pre-Schoolers

Khairuddin

Idrus

Razak

et al. 2023

AM J QUALITATIVE RES

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Children should not be left behind in discussing about peace. In this qualitative study, it discovers the potential use of visual aids for teaching peace values among young children. It aims to explore the use of visual representations, such as pictures and video clips in a study of peace education to develop their understanding of the principles and values of peace. This study employed a qualitative multiple case study approach to investigate twenty children's artworks (between the age of 5 to 6 years old). They have been selected using purposive sampling method. In-depth semistructured interviews and field notes were also used to triangulate data extracted from the drawing and successfully portrayed peace elements in their artworks. Later the codes were extracted and organized to find the emerging themes. The focus was to analyze the KEMAS preschoolers' drawings and their reactions to the drawings and selected video clippings provided in the research framework. Using Feldman's model of art criticism, each drawing was analyzed using the thematic analysis and interpreted using a network of coding. Some of the themes extracted from their artworks are unity and safety symbols, love and happiness, togetherness and survival, peace, conflict, and tranquility. The findings suggested that pictures and video clippings could be a suitable method for conveying powerful messages, including abstract concepts, such as peace and war to young children. Young children have a dissimilar capability to make sense of their surrounding world and putting it into words unlike adults. The use of pictures and clippings would give a practical advantage in helping researchers gather valuable information about how peace education can be taught to children of young age. The need for further research is deemed essential to extend the link between how children learn about peace values and the use of multiple means to teach peace education effectively to students of various ages.

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“…Yet while adults often frame the conflict in terms of competing nationalisms (Peters and Newman 2013), American Jewish children are more likely to From the Mouths of Children: Widening the Scope and Shifting… frame it as a clash between religious groups . And unlike American Jewish teenagers and adults, who tend to see little cause for optimism in the face of intractable conflict (Hassenfeld 2015), American Jewish children tend to be hopeful in imagining a future peaceful resolution (Zakai 2019). American Jews do not suddenly develop beliefs, ideas, and opinions about Israel as teens or adults; they develop over the course of a lifetime that begins with childhood.…”

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From the Mouths of Children: Widening the Scope and Shifting the Focus of Understanding the Relationships Between American Jews and Israel

Zakai

2019

Cont Jewry

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Scholars have spent considerable effort to uncover and explain the unique ways that contemporary American Jews think and feel about Israel, yet the voices of American Jewish children have been conspicuously absent from most research. American Jewish children-like the adults in their lives-have beliefs, opinions, and thoughts about Israel and its role in American Jewish life. This article makes two distinct yet interrelated arguments about the role of children in research on contemporary American Jews. The first is that children ought to be included in research about American Judaism. Second, the inclusion of children in research both widens the scope and shifts the focus of understanding American Jewish relationships to Israel. Children's participation in research demonstrates how American Jews develop relationships with Israel over the course of a lifetime. In addition, the methodological approaches that allow for the inclusion of children in research shift the focus of understanding away from a "deficit model" that measures participants' knowledge and connection against an existing ledger, and towards an "inventory model" that takes stock of participants' cognitive and emotional warehouses. This shift is essential for understanding what Israel means in the lives of American Jews of all ages.

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“Bad Things Happened”: How Children of the Digital Age Make Sense of Violent Current Events

Cited by 4 publications

References 46 publications

Acute Stress Disorders Among Jordanian Adolescents After Watching Gaza News Footage on Social Media

Acute Stress Disorders Among Jordanian Adolescents After Watching Gaza News Footage on Social Media

Interpolating Peace in the Curriculum: How Peace Education is Feasible Through Art among Malaysian Pre-Schoolers

From the Mouths of Children: Widening the Scope and Shifting the Focus of Understanding the Relationships Between American Jews and Israel

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