Tell me why are you using social media (SM)! Relationship between reasons for use of SM, SM flow, daily stress, depression, anxiety, and addictive SM use ... Social media (SM) such as Facebook and Instagram are daily used by many people. The current study investigated the reasons for ...
Peer pressure is a significant factor in the initiation and continuation of substance use among teenagers. Adolescents are at a stage where social acceptance and fitting in with their peers are paramount. This can lead them to engage in behaviors they might otherwise avoid, including drug and alco...
Social media has two characteristics that predispose people to experience stress: They are addictive by design, and they remove the user from the live company of other people. In this, social media are quite different from earlier forms of entertainment such as TV or movies, which were communal...
recently launched one, alarmed by polling suggesting that Swedes, too, were having less sex. The country, which has one of the highest birth rates in Europe, is apparently disinclined to risk its fecundity. “If the social conditions for a good sex life—for example through stress or other ...
For example, late-night screens expose teenagers to blue light, which is no friend to sleep. “Blue light emitted [from screens] can interfere with melatonin production, making it difficult to fall asleep, and the content/scrolling itself can be fairly addictive and/or arousing,” Wu notes. ...
"I used to be like that" "I have smoked more than 40 years, quitting now is impossible!" "I guess I am doing ok, I just smoked one yesterday" I choose life How do you handle being with smokers? Hermit quitting vs happy quitting ...
open-sourceAI, free from government control, is mirrored in my stance on social media platforms. However, the crux of the current debate focuses on China's proven exploitation of TikTok to surveil Western people, leaders as well as journalists and shape the ideological trajectory of our youth....
It’s not just the big singles blasting addictive hooks. "Surf Wax America" lets Weezer fans ply their falsetto skills when they try to reach the end note in, "You take your car to work/I’ll take my board/and when you’re out of fuel/I’m still afloat." ...
open-sourceAI, free from government control, is mirrored in my stance on social media platforms. However, the crux of the current debate focuses on China's proven exploitation of TikTok to surveil Western people, leaders as well as journalists and shape the ideological trajectory of our youth....
has posited that humans, ‘at their deepest level are motivated by metaphysical beliefs’ (p. 19), and there is support in the literature for the idea that spirituality may be conceived or even leveraged as a social resource (Hulme,2021). While religion focuses on an organised body with ...