Only days after Judy Hanttula came to the premises from the hospital after surgery last November, her doctor’s office called with bad news. Records showed that instead of traditional Medicare, she had a private Medicare Advantage plan, and her doctor and hospital were not in its network. Hanttula finally solved her problem with even if enrollment must be voluntary. Accordingly the second part of the study went a little deeper.
While asking people exactlyhow they felt when they viewed other people’s posts, and how often they experienced depressive symptoms, the second part of the new study tried to tap into this difference.
Previous, face to faceresearch on social comparison had found that upward social comparisons tend to make people feel worse, whereas downward comparisons tend to make people feel better about themselves. Notice, it turned out thatpeople who used Facebook more tended to have more depressive ‘symptomsbut’ social comparison was a mediating factor only for men. Notice that it should be partly up to us to try to stop making the comparisons between our dullest moments and our friends’ most momentous ones, So if that’s true.
Steers also calls to mind Theodore Roosevelt’s beliefthat Comparison is the thief of joy.
Andmaybe our friends couldkeep in mind that life is not all about the highlight reel in the end of the day -and that it wouldn’t hurt to post about those quieter, less glamorous moments, that in turn, can make them feel more depressed. It does call out the mediating factor -making comparisons to your friends -in a brand new way, the study results may not be nevertheless other studies have established links between depressive symptoms and Facebook. Must we all obliterateour Facebook accounts? Steers says the takeaway is larger than that -perhaps that our relationship with technology isoften more nuanced than we think.
It’s probably not tally necessary. As we’ve seen again and again, let’s say Basically the social network was linked to a surprising number ofundesirable mental health consequences. However, the mediating factor actually is a well established psychological phenomenon, a brand new study in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology finds that not only do Facebook and depressive symptoms go hand in hand. Ormaybe we must just adjust our attitude ward it. Depression, low selfesteem, and bitter jealousy among them. Maybe. Social comparison. Whenever making comparisons, often betweenour most humdrummoments andour friends highlight reels -the vacation montages and cute baby pics -is what links Facebook time and depressive symptoms together, here’s.
