The Malaysian Insider :: Features
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| If you’re anxious and drunk, you’re more likely to hit Facebook, says study Posted: 13 Apr 2013 07:18 AM PDT  A study has found a connection between anxiety, alcohol and Facebook. – Reuters picNEW YORK, April 13 — A recent study finds that university freshmen who report high levels of anxiety and alcohol use are more connected to Facebook. For his master's thesis, Russell Clayton, now a doctoral student at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, analysed survey responses from more than 229 freshmen living in college dormitories. He asked subjects to rank their perceived levels of loneliness, anxiety, alchohol use and marijuana use, then he measured their "connectedness" to Facebook. The study, supervised by Randall Osborne, Brian Miller, and Crystal Oberle of Texas State University, will be published in the May issue of The Journal of Computers in Human Behavior. Researchers found that drinking alcohol was associated with increased emotional connectedness to Facebook, while marijuana users were less interested in logging on to their Facebook accounts. The reason for the difference? Clayton suggests that marijuana usage is "much less of a social process," unlike drinking alcohol. He also found that students with stronger emotional connectedness to the social media site were more motivated to drink alcohol after viewing photos of their friends drinking or status updates about drinking. Subjects who considered themselves anxious were also more likely to want to connect with others on Facebook as opposed to in face-to-face, social encounters. A separate study published last month finds that Facebook profiles are "self-affirming," and that after getting their ego bruised, in even a small way, users get a boost of confidence by checking out their online profile. That study, involving 88 undergraduate students in the US, appears in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. In another recent study, researchers found that Facebook has a positive effect on psychological well-being and can increase bonding. Published in Behaviour & Information Technology, the study investigated the role the social network plays in the lives of 800 students from seven universities in South Africa. — AFP-Relaxnews |
| Hit the gym or make dinner? Most adults don’t have time for both Posted: 13 Apr 2013 01:55 AM PDT  A new study says that adults often are crunched for time between exercising and preparing meals. — AFP picNEW YORK, April 13 — After a long day of work, many of us are crunched for time and faced with a choice — make dinner at home or go to the gym? A new US study finds that most adults have to sacrifice one for the other. Even among those who were able to squeeze in both a workout and meal preparation in the same day, a 10-minute increase in time spent preparing food was linked to a workout that was 10 minutes shorter, the researchers said. In the study, a team of scientists from Ohio State University's College of Public Health analyzed nationally available data on more than 112,000 American single and married adults, with or without children, who had reported their activities for the previous 24 hours. Of those, 16 per cent of men and 12 per cent of women said that they had exercised on the previous day. And men spent, on average, almost 17 minutes preparing food, compared to an average of 44 minutes for women. The average time spent exercising for the entire sample of adults, including those who did not exercise, was 19 minutes for men and nine minutes for women. "As the amount of time men and women spend on food preparation increases, the likelihood that those same people will exercise more decreases," said Rachel Tumin, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in epidemiology. "The data suggests that one behavior substitutes for the other." "If we assume, for example, that adults have 45 minutes of free time to allocate to health-promoting behaviors, maybe we need to look at that holistically and determine the optimal way to use that time," she said. She presents her study April 12 at the Population Association of America meeting in New Orleans. — AFP-Relaxnews |
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