The problem: young adults have a high prevalence of mental health problems (up to 25% in a year), the usually don't tend to seek help for these problems. About 78% of American young adults look online for information about health. 18-39% of young adults write blogs or an online journal. A recent article was published from authors who conducted a qualitative grounded theory analysis of the blogs of young adults (18–25 years of age) who were specifically blogging about their experiences with mental health problems. The researchers did this in order to understand why young adults are particularly unlikely .....read more »

Research shows you can improve your self-representation through faceboook and other social media with several techniques: spending more time with greater cognitive resources to edit the messages carefully selecting photographs highlighting your positive attributes presenting an ideal self having a deeper self-disclosure managing the styles of your language providing a set of links to other sites or associating themselves with certain people, symbols, and material objects Presenting yourself in a more positive way on Facebook is a way to manage other's impressions of you. According to a recent publication on research with undergraduates to the impact of Facebook on users’ perceptions toward others, it found a relationship with .....read more »

Interesting video with an important message, the same goes for internet addiction.... a parallel between the industrialization of food, which at once allowed for ever-greater efficiency and reined in an obesity epidemic, and the industrialization of information, arguing that blaming the abundance of information itself is as absurd as blaming the abundance of food for obesity. Thanks Brain PickingsNo related posts. ..read more »

Read an interesting article about this subject. Interesting not in the sense of costs or efficacy but mostly on how they did it. It's done for an epidemiological study on a mother child cohort. They wanted to include pregnant women for their study with facebook beside other forms of recruitment such as: active collaboration with health personnel involved in pregnancy and childbirth who distribute leaflets or introduce the study to pregnant women, a website, links to the website on other websites dedicated to pregnant women and participation in online pregnancy related forums. What they did with facebook was creating a weekly .....read more »

Amazing video about showing the value of a much appreciated social media forum: TwitterNo related posts. ..read more »

Most are afraid of greater online disclosure than offline disclosure. The computer luring us towards more information about ourselves than would probably be safe. Self-disclosure is the voluntary and verbal communication of personal information to a targeted recipient. It has three dimensions: frequency, breadth, and depth. Frequency of self-disclosure refers to the amount of information revealed, disclosure breadth is the range or diversity of self-disclosure topics, and depth is the intimacy of personal information divulged. Results of scientific research differ from more self disclosure online to more disclosure in face to face contacts. A recent systematic review focused on self-disclosure between .....read more »

Some research has been done on factors influencing a persons likelihood to play online games. All these motivations found in research doesn't say much about the sources of these motivations. This study looks at how personality traits motivate online game play. This study was done in Korea. In Korea, watching television, going to the cinema, and online gaming are the three major leisure activities. An important finding was that personality traits do not seem to predict online gaming behavior in terms of overall online playing time and years of online gaming. Personality traits are only relevant to the reason why people .....read more »

Because Facebook use can evoke a positive emotional state. Researchers have esthablished these positive responses during an expirement in which they measured several psychophysiological measures. They recorded skin conductance, blood volume pulse, electroencephalogram, electromyography, respiratory activity, and pupil dilationstate. They measured these psychophysiological patterns in 30 healthy subjects during relaxation condition, showing slides of the subject’s personal Facebook account, and a stress condition. Flow is a form of intense engagement and enjoyment, it can occur when the challenge provided by the activity is high enough but the skills of the person can still cope with the situation. Findings from a wide range .....read more »

A recent post on Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog about "Netiquette" and married couples reminded me of a previous post on this blog Netiquette within married couples. This study has a strong online presence since PsyBlog also wrote about it. So take care out there.Related posts: Netiquette within married couples Gratitude among married couples Elderly couple of 62 years married plays piano ..read more »

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