

This study explores many potential predictors of terrorist behavior. These can be categorized into a) Context, which includes difficulties that derive from life circumstances such as poverty and inaccessibility to even basic resources such as food, clothing, and shelter and more complex resources like health care and education. Another important contextual factor includes immigration, which is a complex process of adapting to a new country, creating a new life and identity, finding a source of livelihood, creating a support network, identifying systemic supports; b) Situation: This refers to specific incidents that are peculiar to individuals' lives. These include events that might provoke a coping response that is not healthy or helpful; c) Developmental Factors, which includes difficulties with school including academic and social difficulties. It also includes difficulties with work and having trouble either finding a job that is satisfying, having unrealistic assessment of skills, and not finding the job adequate to expectations, etc; and d) Personality: An important personality characteristic associated with terrorist behavior may be hostility or a suspicious, cynical world view that experiences the world as a hostile place where circumstances and people are stacked against the individual.