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| Good romantic partners make good parents Posted: 13 Dec 2012 01:34 AM PST  Is your partner cooperative and sensitive? Chances are he or she will make a good parent, according to a new study. – ZINQ Stock/shutterstock.com The same skills that make a person a good mate, such as sensitivity and willingness to cooperate, translate to parenting skills, according to new British research. "If you can do responsive care-giving, it seems that you can do it across different relationships," study researcher Abigail Millings of the University of Bristol says in a statement. The key, says Millings, is a person's ability to form healthy attachments with other people. Those with issues such as attachment avoidance tend to put up emotional barriers, or alternatively, someone with attachment anxiety may tend to be clingy and insecure. However, those who form secure attachments are free to be independent in their relationships while also assured that the other person is there for them and vice versa, writes LiveScience. Millings and her team enlisted 125 British couples with children ages seven to eight to fill out surveys about their romantic attachment to their partners, their romantic care-giving, and their parenting styles. The researchers classified parenting styles into three groups: the most ideal was authoritative (warm, communicative but in control), and less ideal styles were authoritarian (in control, but lacking warmth) and permissive (warm, but lacking control). Findings showed that parents who were avoidant or anxious in their romantic relationships were less likely to be ideal parents, adopting either a more authoritarian approach, or the opposite, a more permissive method of parenting. The findings were published last week in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Previous research has shown that attachment avoidance and anxiety are associated with more fear about parenting, as well as having struggles being a parent, according to LiveScience. – AFP/Relaxnews |
| Study links Facebook to overeating, overspending Posted: 12 Dec 2012 07:29 PM PST  Facebook usage leads to the pursuit of transient esteem boosts, according to the researchers. — Reuters pic Facebook can boost self-esteem, but those increased feelings of self-worth can alter your consumer behaviour, and not for the better, researchers say. "Because consumers care about the image they present to close friends, social network use enhances self-esteem in users who are focused on close friends while browsing their social network," writes authors Dr Keith Wilcox of Columbia University and Dr Andrew T. Stephen of the University of Pittsburgh, both assistant professors of marketing. "This momentary increase in self-esteem leads them to display less self-control after browsing a social network." Wilcox and Stephen enlisted some 100 Facebook users, equals parts men and women, in a series of five studies, using a combination of surveys, self-esteem tests, and observations after participants browsed Facebook. Findings showed that more time spent on Facebook was linked with a higher body mass index, increased binge eating, a lower credit score, and higher levels of credit card debt. Their research, announced Tuesday, will be published in the June 2013 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research. A February 2012 Pew Internet survey found that two out of three of US Facebook users say they have had an experience online that made them feel good about themselves. — AFP/Relaxnews |
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