Tag: stress

Study links cyberbullying to post traumatic stress for victims and perpetrators

From the BMJ press release: Cyberbullying — bullying online rather than face to face — is linked to various types of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, both for victims… Read more »

Study suggests children of academics may exhibit more stress

From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release: Starting university is an exciting phase for everyone. However, children from academic households exhibit significantly more stress during this period than those from non-academic… Read more »

Study suggests control over work-life boundaries creates crucial buffer to manage after-hours work stress

From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: When work intrudes after hours in the form of pings and buzzes from smartphone alerts, it can cause spikes of stress… Read more »

Study suggests past stressful experiences do not create resilience to future trauma

From the Brown University press release: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger — that claim is so universally accepted that it’s a common truism in contexts from everyday conversations… Read more »

Study suggests mindfulness combined with hypnotherapy can help highly stressed people

From the Baylor University press release: A new treatment for stress which combines mindfulness with hypnotherapy has shown positive results in a Baylor University pilot study. The intervention is called… Read more »

Study links higher parental stress to low screen-time enforcement

From the University of Guelph press release: When parents are under stress, household rules about screen time often get abandoned, new University of Guelph research finds. A first of its… Read more »

Study suggests expression of certain genes may affect vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder

From the McLean Hospital press release: Results from a new study suggest that whether certain genes are expressed — turned on or off — may play a role in susceptibility… Read more »