PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTION IN TALIBAN IDEOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
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psychological factors, Taliban, ideology, activators, alienation, displacement, psychiatric needs
Abstract
There is little research evidence as to what general Taliban ideology development psychological characteristics as activators. To evaluate which psychological traits contribute in Talban ideology as activators. Total 50 research articles, 20 books, 100 news articles and 20 speeches, 5 biographies and 10 their address were accessed to different libraries and to social domains which available online free ethically. Through qualitative grounded theory methodology made statistical analysis of Taliban ideology characteristics by using ATLAS.ti (ATLAS.ti, [1999]).
The contextual analysis had identified psychological factors which playing role in Taliban ideology, extremism, alienation, states aggression, identity crisis, collective identity, globalization, ethnic identity, displacement, personal gaining, modernization, legitimacy, insecurity, repression, power management, Islamio phobia, Narcissism, paranoid, migration, radicalism, rebellions, parenting styles and broken families.
This study found that main psychological domains statistical significantly playing role in target population ideology as activators. This finding is supporting to full fill the psychological and psychiatric needs of Taliban for controlling such type of ideology and cognition.
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Dr Nighat Gul
Lecturer, Psychology Department, University of Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan
Dr Shagufta Parveen
Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Hazara university Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan.
Sumaira Rehman
Lecturer, Psychology Department, Hazara university Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan.
Gul Jabeen
E.S.T, F.G Public School ( Girls) Amc Centre Abbottabad.
Dr Syeda Farhana Kazmi
Professor, Psychology Department, Hazara university of Mansehra Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan.