Recent research indicates that school burnout among adolescents is shared with parental work burnout. Children of parents suffering from burnout are more likely than others to experience school burnout. Funding from the Academy of Finland has supported the first ever scientific study into the associations between adolescents’ and parents’ burnout. School burnout is a chronic school-related stress syndrome that is manifested in fatigue, experiences of cynicism about school and a sense of inadequacy as a student.
For this study estimates of school burnout were obtained from 515 ninth-grade schoolchildren aged 15. Estimates of work burnout were obtained from 595 parents of these adolescents. The results showed that experiences of burnout were shared in families. “Experiences of burnout were shared most particularly between adolescents and parents of the same gender, i.e. between daughters and mothers and between sons and fathers. [continue reading…]
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Wired executive editor Thomas Goetz (thomas@wired.com) is the author of The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine, to be published this month by Rodale.
Why do you think men pay for sex? The Guardian’s Julie Bindel reports on the research project Men who buy sex . Seven hundred men were interviewed for the project, which aimed to find out why men buy sex.
‘I don’t get anything out of sex with prostitutes except for a bad feeling,” says Ben. An apparently average, thirtysomething, middle-class man, Ben had taken an extended lunchbreak from his job in advertising to talk about his experiences of buying sex. Shy and slightly nervous, he told me, “I am hoping that talking about it might help me work out why I do it.”link to read the full article
I was somewhat intrigued when I discovered this trailer. I have recently started yoga. I have been suffering for some time with an ankle injury…sustained while skipping ( you would think at my age I would have more sense)! Oh and boy , the pain its immense! Well watch this space I’ll let you know how my ankle shapes up with this new addition to my fitness regime ❗
Kelly McGonigal, PhD, is a health psychologist at Stanford University – Check out Kelly’s post for NewHarbingers blog Off the CouchNew Year’s resolutions for people with chronic pain or illness
You can also visit her at yogaforpainrelief.com.
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