The Egyptian public’s exposure to economic news on Egyptian press websites and its relationship to their future anxiety: A field study

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Faculty of mass communication - Ain Shams University

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The study aims to reveal the relationship between the exposure of the Egyptian public to economic news on Egyptian press sites and their levels of future anxiety, in addition to monitoring changes in consumer behavior as a result of their follow-up of economic news on Egyptian press sites, and testing the factors affecting the feeling of future anxiety such as the degree of their confidence in the coverage of economic topics, the quality of the news values included in the economic news, and the differences between members of the Egyptian public according to demographic factors. The current study is considered a descriptive study and relied on the methodology of survey and the correlational relations using an electronic survey, which was applied on a convenient sample of Egyptian public. the study was based on the risk society theory. The results of the study concluded that feelings of future anxiety greatly dominated the respondents as a result of their exposure to economic news on Egyptian press websites. Egyptian press websites' coverage of economic news also contributed to stimulating feelings of future anxiety related to the economic field more than the psychological one. The positive trend prevailed in the consumption behavior of the respondents resulting from their exposure to economic news on the Egyptian press websites. The results proved that there were no statistically significant differences between the levels of future anxiety of the respondents according to demographic factors (gender - age - level of education - social and economic level).

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