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Researchers at the University Jaume I DUWAS confirm the usefulness of a new scale to measure work addiction, a disorder that affects Spain around 12% of working people. Experts say that 8% of the Spanish working population spends over 12 hours a day to their profession.
“Workaholism is understood as a psychosocial damage characterized by two main dimensions overwork and forced labor” Mario Del told SINC Lebanon, Author of the paper and a researcher at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University Jaume I of Castellon de la Plana.
The findings, published in the Spanish magazine Psicothema Not only confirm the two-factor structure of workaholism, ie the two dimensions of the same, but the results relate to the psychosocial well-being (perceived health and happiness), to contrast the negative characteristics of addiction work in Spain.
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Teenagers worried look in the mirror. They live a period characterized by physiological changes, emotional and social cause an excessive demand on their body image. Some authors emphasize that this anxiety is different by gender. While the boys are concerned about the muscles, most of the girls has some ideas of beauty associated with thinness, in most cases, below a healthy size.
Adolescence is an especially vulnerable. Many people experience body image problems as it is the quintessential moment of the physiological changes, emotional, cognitive and social. All of them result in an increased concern about physical appearance.
Research published last February in the journal Psicothema goes one step further in understanding this phenomenon and its authors emphasize something that can generate discussion and debate: it is women who suffer most from this uneasiness before the mirror.
“The empirical evidence accumulated stresses that this concern is different according to sex and gender, putting teenage girls at a risk for their best wishes to lose weight, often far from needing it,” he explains to SINC Pilar Ramos, lead author of research and researcher at the University of Seville.
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Lack of fear, empathy and interpersonal sensitivity are traits of this personality, but now appears also characterized by a hyperactive reward system.
Lack of fear, empathy and interpersonal sensitivity: these are the traits of a psychopathic personality, which countless studies have focused. In addition to these aspects which make a gap, these people will show others, in a sense related to the possession of something that is in surplus and not least: impulsiveness, tendency to risk-taking and the pursuit of gratification, which often are even longer tied to the emergence of violent behavior and criminal.
Research conducted by neuroscientists from Vanderbilt University, has now identified a corralito between these psychopathic personality traits and a malfunction of the brain’s reward system. The research, described in an article Nature NeuroscienceCould open new perspectives for pharmacological treatment of this disorder.
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The level of activity of a brain area is predictive of the ability to wake up the next day with a bounce of a high positive mood or emotional resilience
If you go to bed after an argument with your partner, the fact of waking up still angry or not depends on the level of activity of a brain area characteristic of the person.
The people who typically show greater activity in lateral prefrontal cortices are much less likely to wake up yet ill-disposed towards the partner the next morning, while those with a lower level of activity shows greater resilience of emotion. He has established a research conducted by neuropsychologists Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley, who sign A magazine article Biological Psychiatry.
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The People who spend much time on the Internet is more likely to show symptoms of depression, according to a large study conducted by psychologists University of Leeds.
Researchers have found strong evidence that some users have developed a compulsive habit on the Internet, through which replaced the social interaction of real life network social Internet and chat rooms online. The results suggest that this type of navigation addictive can have a serious impact on the mental health.
“The Internet now plays an important role in modern life, but its benefits are accompanied by a darker side, “says Catriona Morrison, lead author of the study, University of Leeds.
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