Terrorism's Fear : Perceived Personal and National Threats

Terrorism represents an unexpected and unwanted change which challenges one-s social identity. We carried out a study to explore the demographic variables- role on the perception of personal and national threat, and to investigate the effects of perceived terrorist threat on people-s ways of life, moods, opinions and hopes. 313 residents of Palermo (Italy) were interviewed. The results pointed out that the fear of terrorism affects three areas: the cognitive, the emotional and the behavioural one.

• Gioacchino Lavanco
• Floriana Romano
• Anna Milio

• Disaster
• national threat
• personal threat
• terrorism.

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