Published: November 19, 2009
People who experience a lot of negative emotions and do not express these experience more health problems, says Dutch researcher Aline Pelle. She discovered that heart failure patients with a negative outlook reported their complaints to a physician or nurse far less often. The personality of the partner can also exert a considerable influence on these patients.
Aline Pelle investigated patients with a so-called type D personality. These people experience a lot of negative emotions and do not express these for fear of being rejected by others. It was already known that such a type of personality in heart failure patients is associated with anxiety and depression and a reduced state of health. However, Aline Pelle also described which processes might contribute to this. [continue reading…]
Published: November 18, 2009
From simple decisions like “Should I eat this brownie?” to bigger questions such as “Should my next car be a hybrid?” consumers are involved in an inner dialogue that reflects thoughts and perspectives of their different selves, according to the authors of a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Shalini Bahl (iAM Business Consulting) and George R. Milne (University of Massachusetts) studied the multiple perspectives that exist within consumers and explored the ways they navigate inconsistent preferences to make consumption decisions. [continue reading…]
Published: November 18, 2009
From discovering how to help teens to grow up (in the previous post) we move on to find out more about teenagers brains. Parents have long suspected that the brains of their teenagers function differently than those of adults. With the advent of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, we have begun to appreciate how the brain continues to develop structurally through adolescence and on into adulthood. High emotionality is a characteristic of adolescents and researchers are trying to understand how ‘emotional areas’ of the brain differ between adults and adolescents. [continue reading…]
Published: November 18, 2009
Parental nurturing is backfiring, and as a result a generation of teens is growing up less independent, less skilled at common tasks – from doing laundry to choosing college classes – and increasingly unprepared for adulthood, studies show.
Even young adults often are highly reliant on their parents; more than 60 percent of 23-year-olds and 30 percent of 25-year olds are still financially supported by their parents.
“We call it ‘the Nurture Paradox,'” University of Virginia clinical psychologists Joseph Allen and Claudia Worrell Allen write in their new book, “Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How to Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old.” “Today’s parents are trying so hard to nurture their teens that they end up not preparing them for adulthood.” [continue reading…]
