Citation

Asad Ali Shah S, Yezhuang T, Muhammad Shah A, Khan Durrani D, Jamal Shah S. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2018; 15(11): e15112554.

Affiliation

School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China. jimmikakakhail@hotmail.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/ijerph15112554

PMID

30441857

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to empirically explore whether or not the level of emotional intelligence of adolescents mitigates the potential adverse effects of the fear of terror on their psychological well-being. Data for this study were collected through a voluntary survey from a sample of 385 adolescents residing in the terrorism-affected provinces of Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) and Balochistan. The results from the structural equation modeling revealed that fear of terrorism had a significant negative relationship with the psychological well-being of adolescents. The study results further revealed that emotional intelligence significantly moderated the relationship between the fear of terrorism and the psychological well-being of the adolescents. Therefore, the negative relationship was stronger for those with low emotional intelligence and weaker for those with high emotional intelligence. This study also discusses several practical implications along with suggestions for future research.

Language: en

Keywords

Pakistan; adolescents; emotional intelligence; fear of terror; psychological well-being