ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Fear of the Unknown: Does Fear of Terrorism Differ From Fear of Contracting COVID-19?
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Fear of Crime and Terrorism Among Backpackers: Is There a Relationship Between Country of Origin and Trip Location?International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2026Article
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- A Model for Predicting Fear of Terrorism through Fear of Crime, Gender, Locus of Control and Coping Strategies.European journal on criminal policy and research · 2023Article
- Risk perception of COVID-19 and its related factors among centralized medical isolation groups in China.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The Influence of Mental Health on Job Satisfaction: Mediating Effect of Psychological Capital and Social Capital.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
The aim of the study was to explore whether living under constant security threat would result in better coping and higher resilience when exposed to an unknown threat such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, fear of COVID-19 and fear of terrorism as well as the associations with coping strategies and resilience were examined among Israelis living in conflict zones as well as Israelis living in the center, where exposure to security incidents is rare. Six hundred and fifteen Israeli adults (260 men and 356 women) were interviewed via the internet while Israel was under mandatory first lockdown. Fear of COVID-19 was found to be higher than fear of terrorism among both groups. those living in the conflict zones and those living in the central Israel. In contradiction to our assumption, we found that those who were living in a conflict zone did not exhibit higher levels of resilience and did not cope better when exposed to a new threat-even though they may be more skilled at handling prolonged exposure to a threat such as terrorism. A regression analysis indicated that the best predictor of both fear of COVID-19 and of terrorism is financial concerns-more than geographical area.
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