scholarly journals Staying informed without a cost: No effect of positive news media on stress reactivity, memory and affect in young adults

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. e0259094
Author(s):  
Charlotte Longpré ◽  
Claudia Sauvageau ◽  
Rebecca Cernik ◽  
Audrey-Ann Journault ◽  
Marie-France Marin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
News Media ◽  
Statistical Power ◽  
Stress Reactivity ◽  
Bayes Factors ◽  
Memory Recall ◽  
Stress Hormone ◽  
Negative News ◽  
Healthy Participants ◽  
Laboratory Stressor

Introduction We read, see and hear news from various media sources every day. A large majority of the news is negative. A previous study from our laboratory showed that reading negative news is associated with both increased stress reactivity (measured via the stress hormone cortisol) and recall of the negative news segments in women. Objectives The present study investigated the effects of positive news on cortisol stress reactivity, memory and affect using a methodology highly similar to the study on negative news that was previously used by our team. Methods Sixty-two healthy participants aged between 18 and 35 years (81% women) were randomly exposed to either positive or neutral news segments, followed by a laboratory stressor. We assessed participants’ affect three times during the procedure and measured cortisol in saliva eight times (at 10-minute intervals). Twenty-four hours later, participants were contacted by phone to assess their recall of the news segments. Results Results showed that exposure to positive news, relative to neutral news, did not modulate participants’ cortisol levels in response to the laboratory stressor. Positive news had no impact on memory recall of the news and did not change participants’ positive or negative affect. Bayes factors suggested that these nonsignificant results are not attributable to low statistical power. Conclusion Contrary to negative news, positive and neutral news do not modulate stress reactivity, memory and affect. These results suggest that people can stay informed without physiological and psychological costs when the news to which they are exposed adopt a positive or neutral approach.

scholarly journals Staying informed without a cost: No effect of positive news media on stress reactivity, memory and affect in young adults

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Longpré ◽  
Claudia Sauvageau ◽  
Rebecca Cernik ◽  
Audrey-Ann Journault ◽  
Marie-France Marin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Statistical Power ◽  
Stress Reactivity ◽  
Bayes Factors ◽  
Memory Recall ◽  
Stress Hormone ◽  
Negative News ◽  
The One ◽  
Healthy Participants ◽  
Laboratory Stressor

We read, see and hear news from various media sources every day. A large majority of these news are negative. A previous study from our laboratory showed that reading negative news is associated with both increased stress reactivity (measured via the stress hormone cortisol) and recall of these negative news segments in women. The present study investigated the effects of positive news on cortisol stress reactivity, memory and affect employing a methodology highly similar to the one used previously by our team using negative news. Sixty-two healthy participants aged between 18 and 35 years (81% women) were randomly exposed to either positive or neutral news segments, followed by a laboratory stressor. We assessed participants’ affect three times during the procedure and measured cortisol in saliva eight times (at 10-minute intervals). Twenty-four hours later, participants were contacted by phone to assess their recall of the news segments. Results showed that exposure to positive news, relative to neutral news, did not modulate participants’ cortisol levels in response to the laboratory stressor. Positive news had no impact on memory recall of the news and did not change participants' positive or negative affect. Bayes factors suggested that these nonsignificant results are not attributable to low statistical power. Contrary to negative news, positive and neutral news do not modulate stress reactivity, memory and affect. These results suggest that people can stay informed without physiological and psychological costs when the news to which they are exposed adopt a positive or neutral approach.

An Experimental Examination of Stress Reactivity in Adolescents and Young Adults With Asthma

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelica R. Eddington ◽  
Larry L. Mullins ◽  
Jennifer Byrd-Craven ◽  
John M. Chaney
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Stress Reactivity ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Experimental Examination

scholarly journals Blunted stress reactivity reveals vulnerability to early life adversity in young adults with a family history of alcoholism

Addiction ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 114 (5) ◽  
pp. 798-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Lovallo ◽  
Andrew J. Cohoon ◽  
Ashley Acheson ◽  
Kristen H. Sorocco ◽  
Andrea S. Vincent
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Family History ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Stress Reactivity ◽  
Early Life Adversity ◽  
History Of

Young adults know that their issues are not represented in the news: Israeli young adults and mainstream news media

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benny Nuriely ◽  
Moti Gigi ◽  
Yuval Gozansky
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the ways socio-economic issues are represented in mainstream news media and how it is consumed, understood and interpreted by Israeli young adults (YAs). It examines how mainstream media uses neo-liberal discourse, and the ways YAs internalize this ethic, while simultaneously finding ways to overcome its limitations. Design/methodology/approach This was a mixed methods study. First, it undertook content analysis of the most popular Israeli mainstream news media among YAs: the online news site Ynet and the TV Channel 2 news. Second, the authors undertook semi-structured in-depth interviews with 29 Israeli YAs. The analysis is based on an online survey of 600 young Israelis, aged 18–35 years. Findings Most YAs did not perceive mainstream media as enabling a reliable understanding of the issues important to them. The content analysis revealed that self-representation of YAs is rare, and that their issues were explained, and even resolved, by older adults. Furthermore, most of YAs' problems in mainstream news media were presented using a neo-liberal perspective. Finally, from the interviews, the authors learned that YAs did not find information that could help them deal with their most pressing economic and social issue, in the content offered by mainstream media. For most of them, social media overcomes these shortcomings. Originality/value Contrary to research that has explored YAs’ consumerism of new media outlets, this article explores how YAs in Israel are constructed in the media, as well as the way in which YAs understand mainstream and new social media coverage of the issues most important to them. Using media content analysis and interviews, the authors found that Young Adults tend to be ambivalent toward media coverage. They understand the lack of media information: most of them know that they do not learn enough from the media. This acknowledgment accompanies their tendency to internalize the neo-liberal logic and conservative Israeli national culture, in which class and economic redistribution are largely overlooked. Mainstream news media uses neo-liberal discourse, and young adults internalize this logic, while simultaneously finding ways to overcome the limitations this discourse offers. They do so by turning to social media, mainly Facebook. Consequently, their behavior maintains the logic of the market, while also developing new social relations, enabled by social media.

scholarly journals Differential Effects of Poor Recall and Memory Disjointedness on Trauma Symptoms

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1032-1041 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane Sachschal ◽  
Elizabeth Woodward ◽  
Julia M. Wichelmann ◽  
Katharina Haag ◽  
Anke Ehlers
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Memory Recall ◽  
Ptsd Symptoms ◽  
Trauma Symptoms ◽  
Intrusive Memories ◽  
Processing Styles ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Healthy Participants ◽  
Poor Memory ◽  
Film Group

Clinical theories of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suggest that trauma memories are disorganized. In the present study, we examined how trauma-film exposure affects two aspects of memory disorganization, poor memory recall and memory disjointedness, and their relationship to PTSD-like symptoms. In Session 1, 90 healthy participants were exposed to a trauma ( n = 60) or a neutral film ( n = 30). Cognitive processing styles, memory characteristics, and intrusive memories of the film were assessed. The trauma-film group reported greater memory disjointedness of the worst moments of the film but better memory recall of the film than the neutral-film group. In the trauma-film group, cognitive processing and memory disjointedness were related to intrusive memories and PTSD-like symptoms in the week after film exposure. Memory disjointedness but not poor memory recall mediated the relationship between cognitive processing and intrusions. The findings suggest that different aspects of memory disorganization need to be distinguished to explain PTSD symptoms.

scholarly journals A Public Health Approach to Negative News Media: The 3-to-1 Solution

2020 ◽  
pp. 089011712091422
Author(s):  
Tyler J. VanderWeele ◽  
Arthur C. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Population Health ◽  
News Media ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
The Past ◽  
Negative News ◽  
Health And Well Being

There is clear evidence that the prevalence of negative media reporting has increased substantially over the past years. There is evidence that this negative reporting adversely affects social interactions, and thereby also health and well-being outcomes. Given the wide reach of negative media reporting and the contagion of such reporting and the resulting interactions, the effects on health are arguably substantial. Moreover, there is little incentive at present for media outlets to change practices. A commitment of news outlets to report one positive story for every 3 negative stories, and of news consumers to restrict attention to outlets that do, could dramatically alter practices and, consequently, population health.

scholarly journals Young adults and everyday-life information: The role of news media

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 258-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsty Williamson ◽  
Asim Qayyum ◽  
Philip Hider ◽  
Ying-Hsang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
News Media

Lingual Propulsive Pressures Across Consistencies Generated by the Anteromedian and Posteromedian Tongue by Healthy Young Adults

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 960-972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura L. Gingrich ◽  
Julie A. G. Stierwalt ◽  
Carlin F. Hageman ◽  
Leonard L. LaPointe
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Gender Difference ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Tongue Pressure ◽  
Oral Performance ◽  
Repeated Measures Analysis ◽  
Bolus Viscosity ◽  
Bolus Propulsion ◽  
Posterior Tongue ◽  
Healthy Participants

Purpose In the present study, the authors investigated lingual propulsive pressures generated in the normal swallow by the anterior and posterior lingual segments for various consistencies and maximum isometric tasks. Method Lingual pressures for saliva, thin, and honey-thick liquid boluses were measured via the Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI Medical, Carnation, WA) at both anteromedian and posteromedian lingual segments of 62 healthy participants, ages 18–34 years (30 men, 32 women). Results A repeated-measures analysis of variance revealed that all lingual swallowing pressures were significantly greater at the anteromedian segment than at the posteromedian segment. Gender was not a significant factor; however, women exhibited greater swallowing pressures across all conditions. Lingual pressures increased as bolus viscosity increased. No significant interactions existed. Analysis of a subset of 30 participants revealed that men exhibited greater maximal isometric pressure at the anteromedian segment than women, with no significant gender difference at the posteromedian segment. A significantly higher percentage of maximum isometric tongue pressure was exerted by the posteromedian tongue than by the anteromedian tongue. Conclusion Findings suggest that greater amplitudes of lingual pressures are generated during normal swallowing at the anteromedian lingual segment; however, a greater percentage of maximum isometric tongue pressure was exerted by the posteromedian lingual segment, suggesting increased effort by the posterior tongue during bolus propulsion.

scholarly journals Does Skepticism Predict News Media Literacy: A Study on Turkish Young Adults

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Osman Yilmaz Kartal ◽  
Akan Deniz Yazgan ◽  
Remzi Y. Kincal
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
News Media ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Research Populations ◽  
Positive Effect

The 2010’s are when information and informatics age coexist, information overload has been transformed into a mass engineering tool, “imposing bombardment” has become the norm. The most influential tool of this cultural-industrial act is news media. Efforts to educate young adults, who are most active in touch with information, in view of news media are needed. Skepticism has the potential to improve news media literacy of young adults. The present study investigates whether young adults’ skepticism levels predict young adults’ news media literacy levels. The research problem was analyzed with correlational research model. Two different research populations (Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University and Ataturk University) were determined for the purpose of the study. The results revealed positive, moderate, significant relationships between skepticism levels and news media literacy of young adults. “Self-determining” and “interpersonal understanding” competences - the components of skepticism - have a positive effect on news media literacy. The “search for knowledge” and “questioning mind” has the potential to positively affect news media literacy.

Low-dose ketamine adjuvant treatment for refractory pain in children, adolescents and young adults with cancer: a pilot study

2019 ◽  
pp. bmjspcare-2018-001739
Author(s):  
Magali Courade ◽  
Amandine Bertrand ◽  
Lea Guerrini-Rousseau ◽  
Anne Pagnier ◽  
Dominique Levy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Cancer Pain ◽  
Pain Score ◽  
Statistical Power ◽  
Opioid Analgesics ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Visual Analogue Scale Pain ◽  
Low Doses ◽  
Refractory Pain ◽  
Opioid Sparing

ObjectivesKetamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, is effective at relieving adult cancer pain, although there have been very few reports to date regarding its use in children and in adolescents and young adults (AYA). This study assessed the efficacy, safety and opioid-sparing effects of low doses of ketamine added to opioid analgesics to alleviate persistent cancer pain.MethodsThis prospective, multicentre, observational trial collected data regarding demographics, pain characteristics, pain score assessment within the first 48 hours of ketamine administration, tolerance and satisfaction from 38 patients aged 2–24 years prescribed with ketamine as an adjuvant antalgic for refractory cancer pain in 10 French paediatric oncology centres.ResultsThe mean visual analogue scale pain score decreased from 6.7 to 4.3 out of 10 (n=39, p<0.001) from day 1 to day 3 and by at least 2 points in 56% of the patients (n=22) 48 hours after initiation of ketamine. Nine patients experienced poor tolerance (≥2 side effects), all with infusion rates lower than 0.05 mg/kg/hour. None had limiting toxicities. An opioid-sparing effect was highlighted in four patients. Fifty-four per cent of the prescribers and 47% of the patients found the addition of ketamine ‘very helpful’.ConclusionsLow doses of ketamine as an adjuvant to opioids significantly reduced the intensity of pain in half of the study population. A tendency towards better pain control is shown, although a lack of statistical power somewhat limits our conclusions, especially in children. Nevertheless, ketamine may be a useful option for improving the treatment of refractory pain in children and AYA with cancer.

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