Positive-Activity App Shows Promise for Easing the Mental Toll of Dementia Caregiving
A 14-day University of Michigan study found that dementia caregivers used the Roadmap positive-activity app on 87 percent of days, ...
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Wearables and Smartphone Surveys Track Everyday Stress in Real Time to Probe Heart Disease Risk
A $3.82 million UT Arlington project combines smartphone surveys, wearable sensors and lab testing to measure everyday stress in real ...
Who Do You Call When You Need Comfort? New Study Tests Whether Friends Have Emotional Specialties
A 14-day smartphone study of 106 adults found only limited evidence that people assign specific friends to specific emotional regulation ...
Boredom, Not Stress, Drives Daily Smartphone Screen Time, Study Finds
A 14-day study of Chinese college students using objective screen-time data shows boredom directly boosts smartphone use, especially short-video viewing ...
Meaning-Centered Coping Classes Calm Language Anxiety and Slow the Heart
A new longitudinal study shows that a brief, meaning-centered coping program embedded in English language classrooms significantly reduced anxiety and ...
Your Phone Knows When You’ll Drink: Real-World Cues Predict Drinking in Daily Life
A two-cohort smartphone study shows that real-world exposure to alcohol-related cues reproducibly raises the odds of momentary drinking in alcohol ...
Real-Time Phone Surveys Show Promise for Tracking Shift Workers’ Activity
A smartphone-based real-time survey method proved feasible for tracking physical activity and sitting in shift workers, with strong retention but ...
Beyond Screen Time: Why Social Media’s Effects on Body Image Depend on What You Post, See and Receive
A new letter in the Journal of Eating Disorders argues that research on social media and body image must move ...
Nurses’ Hearts Reveal Which Hospital Moments Truly Stress Them Out
A wearable-sensor study at a German university hospital shows that demanding patient care, not paperwork or call bells, produces the ...
When Nothing Changes: The Hidden Statistical Trap of Non-Varying Individuals in Daily-Life Research
A new simulation study shows that participants whose scores never change can systematically bias autoregressive and cross-lagged estimates in intensive ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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