Abstract

Nowadays, dissemination of news and information on various television channels ‎has been grown in pace and significance compared to other media, yet the energy ‎sector, and more specifically speaking oil, has always been of paramount importance. ‎The main purpose of this study was to explore the effect of employing psychological ‎operations techniques in dissemination of news in the field of energy. The present ‎study is applied in terms of purpose and it is descriptive-survey in terms of nature. ‎The research population of this study included journalists working on the field of ‎energy from various news agencies along with students studying communications in ‎Tehran. For sampling, Cochran formula was used, by which 148 people were ‎selected. A 36-item researcher-made inventory was used to collect data. Before ‎application, in a preliminary study, the face and content validity of the ‎questionnaires were examined and confirmed by ten lecturers and experts in the ‎aforementioned field. Cronbach's alpha was employed to evaluate the reliability of ‎the instrument. The data of the study was analyzed using SPSS software in ‎descriptive and inferential levels. At the descriptive level, the data was summarized ‎using descriptive tables. As for the quantitative research data, frequency distribution ‎tables were plotted, mean of variance and standard deviation were calculated, and a ‎comparative study was undertaken at the descriptive level. In the inferential level, t-‎tests and chi-square tests were used. The results indicated that journalists believe ‎that in the energy sector, distortion and testing are not employed to great extents in ‎the dissemination of news, yet they believe that exaggeration is a technique ‎frequently used in this field‎‎‎‎‎.