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Jacqueline Fernandez spreads smiles ahead of Christmas, see photos
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Spacey to be charged with felony post sexual assault accusation, posts bizarre video
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Liam Payne to perform in virtual reality
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Courteney Cox surprises superfan!
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Miley Cyrus may star in Black Mirror
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A new cartel is in town
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Spending too much time online can create problems in real-life relationships, says study
Social media use may affect teenagers’ real life relationships
Even as effects of social media use on mental well-being is hotly debated, a new study says that spending too much time online can create problems in real life relationships of teenagers and vice versa.
Results of a survey conducted by Professor Candice Odgers of University of California, Irvine and her colleagues showed teenagers from low-income families reported more physical fights, face-to-face arguments and trouble at school that spilled over from social media. On the other hand, the researchers found that adolescents from economically disadvantaged households are also more likely to be bullied and victimised in cyberspace.
“The majority of young people appear to be doing well in the digital age, and many are thriving with the new opportunities that electronic media provides. But those who are already struggling offline need our help online too,” Odgers said. In a commentary published in the journal Nature, Odgers argued that while smartphones should not be seen as universally bad, vulnerable teenagers experience greater negative effects of life online.
“What we’re seeing now may be the emergence of a new kind of digital divide, in which differences in online experiences are amplifying risks among already vulnerable adolescents,” said Odgers, who is also a fellow in Canadian Institute for Advanced Research’s Child & Brain Development programme.
For the last 10 years, Odgers has been tracking adolescents’ mental health and their use of smartphones. In her survey of North Carolina schoolchildren, 48 per cent of 11-year-olds said they owned a mobile phone as did eighty-five per cent of 14-year-olds.
The study showed that teenagers from families with a household income of less than $35,000 per year spent three more hours a day on screen media watching TV and online videos than teenagers in families with an annual income of more than $100,000.The increased screen time could also convert to more problems offline, the findings showed.
“The evidence so far suggests that smartphones may serve as mirrors reflecting problems teens already have. Those from low-income families said that social media experiences more frequently spilled over into real life, causing more offline fights and problems at school,” Odgers said.
What makes you unfaithful to your partner decoded
Women who are less attractive are more likely to have an extra-marital affair, while men are more likely to be unfaithful when their partners were less attractive, finds a study that aims to identify factors that lead to infidelity — one of the surest ways to cause a breakup — as well as prevent it.
The tendency to devalue or downgrade, the attractiveness of potential romantic partners lowered the risk of infidelity and raised the likelihood of maintaining the relationship.
Faithful partners tend to evaluate romantic alternatives much more negatively, the researchers said.
“People are not necessarily aware of what they’re doing or why they’re doing it,” said lead author Jim McNulty, Professor at the Florida State University (FSU).
“These processes are largely spontaneous and effortless, and they may be somewhat shaped by biology and/or early childhood experiences,” McNulty added.
In the study, published in the journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the team analysed over 233 newly married couples who were shown photographs of highly attractive men and women and average-looking men and women.
They discovered that participants who quickly — in as little as a few hundred milliseconds — disengaged their attention from an attractive person were nearly 50 per cent less likely to engage in infidelity.
Conversely, partners who took significantly longer to look away from a romantic alternative had a higher risk of infidelity, and their marriages were more likely to fail.
Moreover, young, easily distracted partners and less satisfied with their relationships were more likely to be unfaithful.
Surprisingly, people satisfied with sex in their relationship were more likely to engage in infidelity, perhaps suggesting they felt more positive about sex in general and would seek it out regardless of how they felt about their main relationship.
Men who reported having more short-term sexual partners prior to marriage were also more likely to have an affair, while the opposite was true for women, the study said.