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9 papers
The study examined the 100 most popular English TikTok videos tagged #ADHD (searched July 18, 2021). Raters classified videos as useful, personal experience, or misleading and found that about half were misleading. Videos were generally easy to understand but gave little actionable guidance, and healthcare providers’ videos tended to be…
This article offers a new humanities-based theory about how falling seriously ill can affect a person’s quality of life. The authors combine ideas about contingency (the feeling that life could have been different), narrative identity (how people make life stories), and quality of life to explain how people make meaning…
This paper reviews couple therapy in the 2020s. It says couple therapy has become a main way to help couples and is grounded in strong research from studies of couple therapy and relational science. The review reports that couple therapy is widely accepted for reducing relationship distress and improving relationship…
This randomised study tested whether a week of daily 35-minute mindful walks in nature helped university students with sleep problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 104 students were assigned to either a nature or an urban walking route and measured before and after the week. Both groups showed…
Psychiatrist Rami Kaminski argues that there is a previously unrecognised personality type he calls the "otrovert." He describes otroverts as people who do not feel the need to join or merge their identity with groups. He says this can give them originality and emotional independence, but it can also cause…
This review looked at quantitative studies from 2015–2024 about parental narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and narcissistic traits. Eight empirical studies were included. Overall, parental narcissism was linked with poorer parent-child relationships and worse psychological outcomes for children, but results varied by the type of narcissism and the parenting context. Hostile…
Researchers created a short survey that people who were helped could use to report what their friend or family member did. They tested it with 1,116 adults who had a recent mental health problem and were helped by someone close. The survey grouped actions into two types (recommended and not…
The study used surveys from 314 heterosexual married couples (wives mean age 44.56, SD 13.24; husbands mean age 46.33, SD 13.58). Couples who reported higher-quality, meaningful time together also reported more constructive (positive) conflict and less destructive (negative) conflict. Statistical models that looked at each person and their partner (an…
