El FMI prevé un crecimiento de la economía global del 3% durante los próximos cinco años, el más bajo desde 1990
La directora gerente del organismo llama a vigilar los riesgos financieros: “No es momento para la complacencia”
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Social media use and adolescents’ well-being: A note on flourishing
BackgroundSeveral large-scale studies and reviews have reported both negative and positive associations of social media use with well-being, suggesting that the findings are more complex and need more nuanced study. Moreover, there is little or no exploration of how social media use in adolescence influences flourishing, a more all-encompassing construct beyond well-being, including six sub-domains (i.e., happiness, meaning and purpose, physical and mental health, character, close social relationships, and financial stability). This paper aims to fill this gap by understanding how adolescents might flourish through social media activities by fulfilling the basic needs pointed out by the Self-Determination Theory, i.e., relatedness, autonomy, and competence.MethodsThe study is drawn on cross-sectional data collected from 1,429 Swiss adolescents (58.8% females, Mage = 15.84, SDage = 0.83) as part of the HappyB project in Spring 2022. Self-reported measures included the Harvard Adolescent Flourishing scale, positive and negative online social experiences, self-disclosure on social media, and social media inspiration. Control variables included, among others, self-esteem, ill-being, and personality.ResultsAfter applying Bonferroni’s correction, results of the hierarchical regression analyses showed that positive social media experiences (β = 0.112, p
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Preoperative Anxiety and Preemptive Analgesia on Postoperative Delirium in Adenotonsillectomy Surgery
Conditions: Preoperative Anxiety; Postoperative DeliriumIntervention: Other: The Modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (m-YPAS) of childrenSponsor: Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit UniversityCompleted
Nikkei Falls 1.2% on Recession Fears
Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average fell 1.2% to close at 27472.63. Weak U.S. economic data released Wednesday have deepened concerns that the aggressive Fed monetary-tightening stance could tip the U.S. economy into recession, said Phillip Nova.
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Lethal and severe violence: Characterizing Swedish female offenders with and without a severe mental disorder [SMD]
… All females charged with lethal or attempted lethal violence, who had undergone forensic psychiatric investigations (FPI) in Sweden between 2000 and 2014, constituting the two groups SMD (n = 84) and no SMD (n = 91), were included. … … Overall, both groups were often unemployed, previously victimized within close relations, had psychiatric health issues, and more than
Therapist perceptions of the implementation of a new screening procedure using the ItFits-toolkit in an iCBT routine care clinic: A mixed-methods study using the consolidated framework for implementation research
… This study investigates the implementation of a new, more automated screening procedure using the ItFits-toolkit in the online clinic, Internet Psychiatry (iPsych) (www.internetpsykiatrien.dk), delivering guided iCBT for mild to moderate anxiety and depressive disorders. The study focuses on how the therapists experienced the process. … … The therapists experienced an improvement in the intake
Two years COVID-19 pandemic: Development of university students’ mental health 2020–2022
… A cross-sectional, anonymous online survey among students of six universities was conducted between April and May 2022 (N = 5,510). … …More than one third of students exhibited clinically relevant symptoms of depression (35.5%), hazardous alcohol use (33.0–35.5% depending on gender) or anxiety disorder (31.1%). Taken together, almost two out of three (61.4%) students
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The influences of mindfulness on high-stakes mathematics test achievement of middle school students
Research has shown that mindfulness can reduce students’ negative emotions associated with high-stakes tests and thereby improve test performance. This study explored the association between mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) and high-risk math test scores of middle school students, which is noticeably slim in the domain of mathematics education, through a mediating process involving math-specific test anxiety and math self-efficacy. Using data from a sample of 45 students, age 12–13, we found empirical support for a significant positive correlation between mindfulness and middle school students’ math achievement. Participants listened to a mindfulness audio every other week before a mathematics test. Weekly mathematics test scores, student group discussion data, and in-depth interview data were analyzed to explore how mindfulness affected students’ mathematics test performance, which showed a statistically significant improvement after mindfulness compared to mathematics achievement without the intervention. Our results indicate that mindfulness can relieve mathematics anxiety symptoms, including physiological manifestations, test-unrelated thinking and worries, and problem-solving obstacles caused by mathematics anxiety. Also, mindfulness, especially its non-judgmental attitude, positively affects students’ mathematical self-efficacy. The current research provides evidence of the mindfulness intervention’s efficacy for improving middle school mathematics test performance but also identifies the complexities of implementing it with large numbers of students.
Oil Edges Lower Amid Recession Fears
Oil edged lower in the early morning Asian session. Energy traders were digesting a round of U.S. data suggesting that the world’s largest economy is headed toward a recession, Oanda said.
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How Prozac Increases Brain Plasticity
Fluoxetine (Prozac), a common antidepressant, was found to enhance the erasure of learned fear responses and facilitate spatial pattern learning in mice. The study also found the TrkB receptor in PV+ interneurons plays a crucial role in these effects, which may offer new possibilities for the development of psychiatric treatments targeting brain plasticity.
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