Radical Thoughts: Fears About and Supportin ISIS Among Jordanian College Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diab M. Al-Badayneh ◽  
Murad A. Almawajdeh ◽  
Abdulla T. Al-Enazi
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Foreign Assistance ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Material Support ◽  
Women In The Workplace ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Conservative Beliefs

Regardless of the sizable number of terrorist attacks in the last decade in Jordan, Jordanians’ fear of the terrorists or risk of dying in a terrorist attack in Jordan is almost non-existent. What drives the young educated student to sympathize and support terrorist groups like ISIS? Sympathy and support for terrorist groups like ISIS among youths in Jordan can be understood by tracing its roots of the micro (personal factors), meso (institutional factors), and macro-level (social, cultural factors). Youths’ sympathy and support for ISIS are based on religious beliefs, social taboos, kinship, and social ties. The current study aims at examining radical, conservative, and extremist thoughts, fear about, and behavioral and material support for ISIS among college students in Jordan. Findings showed that, on average, 59% of students expressed radical thoughts, concentrated on areas of social and religiously conservative and extremist beliefs. Moreover, results showed that 66% of students carried extreme ideas, with 90.7% accepting the use of violence. More than half (61%) of the sample expressed conservative thoughts ranged from stoning adultery cases (82.4%) to segregation of women in the workplace (59.4.%). Findings showed less than half of the sample, 43.4% feared that they might become victims of ISIS one day, and 69.4% of students worried about the emergence of radical groups in Jordan. Also, findings showed that about 10% of students expressed behavioral or/and material support for ISIS ranging from money donation (11.7%) to providing personal and operational assistance (8%). Students’ overall average justification for ISIS’s support was 14%, and 15.6% of students justified their behavioral and material support for ISIS due to foreign assistance for Muslim authoritarian regimes. The lowest justification was for seeing ISIS as a defender of Islam. Finally, there was a significant relationship between radical thoughts and each of the support justifications (r = .254), strain (0.32), fear (0.46), religiosity (0.78), and ISIS support (r = .297). Additionally, there is a significant relationship between ISIS’s support and ISIS’s support justification (r = .72). Radical thoughts, violent extremism beliefs, conservative beliefs, stress, victimization, and justification explained 56% of the variance on behavioral and material support for ISIS and had an overall significant effect on behavioral and material support for ISIS (F = 85.936, α = .000).

scholarly journals A Study on Frequent Selfie Users and Narcissism among College Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Abirami Sakthivel ◽  
Priyadharshini Thangamuthu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Early Screening ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Critical Situations

Background: Selfie a generalized expression for a "self portrait”, has become a fad among today's youth. People love to take and post their selfies even when they are in critical situations or any annoying surroundings. For example, when someone met with an accident, people take pictures, rather than calling ambulance. Aim: This study aimed to investigate the narcissism and selfie users among college students of Coimbatore, India. Materials and Methods: Descriptive design was adapted. Conveniently selected 100 post graduate students were assessed on selfie usage and narcissism. Results: Study found that 67% of the students moderately using selfie and 50% of the students had narcissism. Narcissism had a significant relationship with selfie usage. Conclusion: Study concluded that majority of the college students who were taking selfies and uploading them on social networking sites after editing them had more narcissism. Study recommends that early screening followed by appropriate interventions are required for selfie takers to avoid psychological problems in future. Keywords: Selfie usage, narcissism, students

scholarly journals Analysis on Factors Causing Fatigue among Steel Casting Workers at PT X Sidoarjo

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
Muhammad Amin Jauhari
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Steel Casting ◽  
Work Climate ◽  
Physical Workload ◽  
Observational Research ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Protective Mechanism ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Personal Factors

Introduction: Fatigue is a common condition among workers as a protective mechanism to prevent their body from further damage. PT. X Sidoarjo is a company engaged in the manufacture of steel and wire rod. In the steel casting division, the workers experienced some fatigue. The steel casting workers experience a hot work climate since their work area was close to the billet burner furnace. The physical workload of the workers also affected the level of fatigue. Individual factors and sleep quality also affect the level of individual fatigue. The purpose of this research is to analyze the factors associated with fatigue among  steel casting workers at PT. X Sidoarjo. Metods: This research is categorized as analytical observational research using the cross-sectional approach. The population of this study was 43 workers in the steel casting division at PT. X Sidoarjo. The sample of this research was 30 respondents based on simple random sampling method. The independent variables were individual factors, physical workload, work climate, and sleep quality; while the dependent variable was fatigue. Results: The results showed that there was a significant relationship between physical workload, work climate, and sleep quality with fatigue. There was no significant relationship between individual factors and fatigue. Conclusion: This research conclude that  excessive workload, work climate, and poor sleep quality can cause fatigue among  steel casting workers at PT. X Sidoarjo. Keywords: fatigue, personal factors, physical workload, sleep quality, work climate

TerrorWatch

2019 ◽  
pp. 373-398
Author(s):  
Solomon Sunday Oyelere ◽  
Donald Douglas Atsa'am ◽  
Hope Micah Ayuba ◽  
Olayemi Olawumi ◽  
Jarkko Suhonen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Cell Phones ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Modeling Language ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Unified Modeling ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
High Level

Activities of prominent terrorist groups like Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, Ansaru, and Ansar Dine have left thousands of people dead and properties destroyed for a number of decades in some developing nations. The high level of insecurity occasioned by operations of terror groups has impacted negatively on the socio-economic development of these nations. On the other hand, the use of mobile devices, such as cell phones, has gained prominence in developing nations over the past two decades. Putting side-by-side these two facts, namely, that the menace of terrorism among some developing nations is alarming and that the use of mobile devices is common among citizens of developing countries, this chapter develops a mobile application prototype called TerrorWatch. TerrorWatch is equipped with relevant menus, buttons, and interfaces that will guide a user on what to do when confronted with a terrorist attack or threat. The unified modeling language (UML) was deployed to design the architecture of the application, while the object-oriented paradigm served in the implementation.

Assembling and deconstructing radicalisation in PREVENT: A case of policy-based evidence making?

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabe Mythen ◽  
Sandra Walklate ◽  
Elizabeth-Jane Peatfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Religious Ideology ◽  
Important Material ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Way

In the last 15 years the concept of radicalisation has come to prominence as a means of explaining the process by which individuals become attracted to extremist ideology and endorse the actions of terrorist groups. Post 9/11, radicalisation has gained traction in policy, political and media circles in Britain, being commonly connected to the threat of ‘home-grown’ terrorism. In this article, we critique the understanding of radicalisation outlined in the UK Government’s PREVENT strategy. We focus specifically on how particular understandings of radicalisation are constructed, evidenced and operationalised in PREVENT and the way in which these understandings align with party political worldviews. It is posited that an unremitting focus on the role of religious ideology in the process of radicalisation within PREVENT mutes recognition of otherwise important material grievances expressed by individuals involved in violent extremism. At a broader level, our analysis adds to growing concerns around the deleterious impacts of the securitisation of social policy.

Out-of-Body Experience Status as a Moderator of Effects of Narcissism on Paranormal Beliefs

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 440-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome J. Tobacyk ◽  
Thomas E. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Paranormal Belief ◽  
Out Of Body Experience ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
Body Experiences ◽  
Paranormal Beliefs ◽  
Narcissistic Personality Inventory ◽  
Belief Scale

The Narcissistic Personality Inventory and the Paranormal Belief Scale were given to 383 college students. As hypothesized, significant but small direct correlations were obtained between narcissism and belief in Psi and in Precognition. When the sample was divided into those 56 who reported out-of-body experiences and 327 nonreporters, an interaction emerged. Among the former, narcissism showed significant moderate correlations with belief in Psi, Precognition, Witchcraft, and Superstition. Among the latter only one small significant relationship was found between narcissism and Precognition. These differential relationships between narcissism and paranormal beliefs for reporters and nonreporters of out-of-body experiences were interpreted in terms of schemata theory.

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN ANTARA KESEPIAN DENGAN SELFIE-LIKING PADA MAHASISWA

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Evina Krisnawati ◽  
Christiana Hari Soetjiningsih
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Spearman Correlation ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Spearman Correlation Test ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to examine the relationship between loneliness and selfie-liking. The hypothesis of this research is that there is a positive relationship between loneliness and selfie-liking among college students. This research used correlational quantitative methods. Participants in this research was 64 students, which was taken by purposive sampling technique, with inclusive criteria: like to do selfie and in the last month post the selfie photos to social media as much as 4-6 times. Data were collected using the Loneliness Scale from UCLA Version 3 and selfie-liking measured by Selfie-Liking Scale.  The correlation was analyzed using the Spearman Correlation Test with SPSS 23 for Windows. The results showed there was a positive and significant relationship between loneliness and self-liking (r=.297; p=.009) which means the higher loneliness, the higher selfie-liking.

scholarly journals Access Control Points: Reducing a Possible Blast Impact by Meandering

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Larcher ◽  
Georgios Valsamos ◽  
Vasilis Karlos
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Numerical Simulations ◽  
Blast Wave ◽  
Injury Risk ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Control Points ◽  
The Public ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Risk Areas ◽  
Wall System

In response to the heightened terror threat in recent years, there is an increasing interest in the introduction of access control zones at sites that are characterized by an increased likelihood of being the target of a terrorist attack, as latest data reveal that unprotected areas of mass congregation of people have become attractive to terrorist groups. Such control zones could be located within the building that has to be protected or attached to it. The elevated security needs for these areas call for a design that will consider the risk of internal explosive events. The purpose of this article is to outline a strategy for limiting the consequences of an internal blast, while guaranteeing that the produced blast wave does not propagate into vulnerable areas. In particular, the focus is on the introduction of a protective wall system in the form of a meander that allows unobstructed access of the public and at the same time reduces the possible blast inflow to the building's interior. The performed numerical simulations show that the proposed strategy yields much smaller injury risk areas compared to a design without the addition of protective walls and is recommended for upgrading the security of buildings.

scholarly journals ‘Bride Terrorist’ in Indonesia: Is She Still Considered as a Peace Agency?

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-95
Author(s):  
Mia Dayanti Fajar ◽  
Elisabeth Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Personal Factors ◽  
Suicide Bomber ◽  
Suicide Bombers ◽  
Suicide Bombings ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Terrorist Acts ◽  
Commit Suicide

ISIS and Al-Qaeda are now recruiting women to join terrorism groups. These two large terrorist groups even show the real use of women as suicide bombers in terrorist acts. This is certainly controversial since women have a close relationship with peace. It indicates a shift in traditional feminist thinking saying that women are identical with peace. The involvement of women in terrorism can also be traced in Indonesia. In December 2016, Indonesia was shocked by the arrest of a prospective suicide bomber with her husband. The phenomenon occurred along with female Chechen suicide bombers, Black Widows, who blew themselves up to avenge their husbands’ death. This paper aims to explain the involvement of women in the world of terrorism and any reason taken by women to commit suicide bombings. The result of this research revealed that women were involved in terrorism because of patriarchal culture and personal factors that was based on religion by doctrinization in Indonesia.

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