TY - JOUR
T1 - Sleeping with the enemy
T2 - Anxiety regarding the ISIS threat is related to sleep problems
AU - Hoffman, Yaakov S.G.
AU - Grossman, Ephraim S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has recently carried out atrocities both in the Middle East and localized terror attacks in several western countries killing hundreds and wounding thousands. Many executions and attacks were broadcast within clever media campaigns containing warnings of future attacks. We examined anxiety of a future ISIS threat along with its association to self-reported sleep difficulties in a sample of adult Israelis (N = 1007). We demonstrated this association in different models beyond the effects of additional potential variables which have been noted to affect sleep, such as reported health, exposure to terror, exposure to ISIS media, psychological variables such as general anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. In all cases, a strong positive relationship between ISIS anxiety and sleep symptoms was obtained. Issues concerning the relationship between anxiety of a future threat and sleep symptoms, as well as the notion of sleep difficulties being a marker for such anxiety, are discussed.
AB - Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has recently carried out atrocities both in the Middle East and localized terror attacks in several western countries killing hundreds and wounding thousands. Many executions and attacks were broadcast within clever media campaigns containing warnings of future attacks. We examined anxiety of a future ISIS threat along with its association to self-reported sleep difficulties in a sample of adult Israelis (N = 1007). We demonstrated this association in different models beyond the effects of additional potential variables which have been noted to affect sleep, such as reported health, exposure to terror, exposure to ISIS media, psychological variables such as general anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. In all cases, a strong positive relationship between ISIS anxiety and sleep symptoms was obtained. Issues concerning the relationship between anxiety of a future threat and sleep symptoms, as well as the notion of sleep difficulties being a marker for such anxiety, are discussed.
KW - Depression
KW - General anxiety
KW - ISIS anxiety
KW - Insomnia
KW - PTSD symptoms
KW - Sleep disturbance
KW - Virtual and actual terror exposure
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2017.02.055
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2017.02.055
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AN - SCOPUS:85014020241
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 112
SP - 85
EP - 89
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
ER -