Dr Hanan Ahmad Presents Paper at IAFOR International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2017, USA
Monday, January 23 2017
Dr Hanan Ahamd, Professor and Chairman, Department of Media and Communication, UMT, presented paper entitled ‘Watching Terrorism: Psychological Effects on Pakistani Youth’ at The IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities 2017 held in Hawaii, USA. He chaired the Conference Session ‘Humanities – Media, Film Studies, Theatre & Communication.’ He is designated as Senior Reviewer and Head ‘Technical Review Committee.’ Dr Hanan presented souvenir to IAFOR CEO Dr Joseph Haldane on behalf of Rector UMT Dr Hasan Sohaib Murad. Dr Joseph Haldane showed interest to organized international conference in Pakistan in collaboration with UMT. An MoU between UMT and IAFOR will signed soon in this regard.
Dr Hanan’s study aims at investigating the relationship between live terrorism coverage, duration of exposure, fear, generalized anxiety and perceived stress among youth N=250). Moreover, the study also explores the meditational role of duration of media exposure in the relationship between live terrorism coverage, perceived stress, generalized anxiety and fear among youth. The findings from the correlation analysis highlighted that duration of exposure of the live terrorism news coverage is positively related with perceived stress and generalized anxiety while not related with level of fear among youths. Furthermore, the finding from the meditational analysis revealed indirect effect of live terrorism coverage to fear; which indicated that duration of exposure fully mediated the relationship between live terrorism coverage and fear as the direct effect of live terrorism coverage with fear is non-significant but through exposure that relationship is significant leading to the conclusion that media exposure level fully mediating that relationship. Moreover, the indirect effect of live media coverage to level of stress and anxiety was significant indicating that exposure duration partially mediated that relationship.