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What’s overlooked in student mental health in South Africa: social connection and sexual wellbeing
Student mental health has become one of the defining challenges facing universities worldwide. In South Africa, these concerns…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #CA #Canada #Health #HigherEducation #livesmarter #MentalHealth #psychology #sexualwellbeing #socialconnection #StudentLife #studentwellbeing #Universities
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What’s overlooked in student mental health in South Africa: social connection and sexual wellbeing
Student mental health has become one of the defining challenges facing universities worldwide. In South Africa, these concerns…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #AU #Australia #Health #HigherEducation #livesmarter #MentalHealth #Psychology #sexualwellbeing #socialconnection #StudentLife #studentwellbeing #Universities
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What’s overlooked in student mental health in South Africa: social connection and sexual wellbeing
Student mental health has become one of the defining challenges facing universities worldwide. In South Africa, these concerns…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #AU #Australia #Health #HigherEducation #livesmarter #MentalHealth #Psychology #sexualwellbeing #socialconnection #StudentLife #studentwellbeing #Universities
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/584060/ What’s overlooked in student mental health in South Africa: social connection and sexual wellbeing #Éire #Health #HigherEducation #IE #Ireland #LiveSmarter #MentalHealth #MentalHealth #psychology #SexualWellbeing #SocialConnection #StudentLife #StudentWellbeing #universities
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I've been kicking around the idea of a community built around belonging, curiosity, service, and genuine connection. A place where people can gather regularly, hear someone's story or learn something new, have thoughtful conversations over coffee, and build real friendships. Then once a month, instead of just talking about making our community better, we'd go volunteer or work on a local service project together.
Not a church. Not an anti-church. Not a political group.
Just neighbors creating the kind of community many of us wish we had.
Being based in Liberty, MO I've been calling the idea "Liberty Circle" because I love the symbolism of the circle. No one at the head. No one left outside. Just people coming together, making room for one another, and growing together.
Has anyone here been part of something like this? I'd love to hear what worked, what didn't, and what made people keep coming back.
#Community #Belonging #Humanism #CommunityBuilding #Volunteer #LibertyMO #Missouri #SocialConnection
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I've been kicking around the idea of a community built around belonging, curiosity, service, and genuine connection. A place where people can gather regularly, hear someone's story or learn something new, have thoughtful conversations over coffee, and build real friendships. Then once a month, instead of just talking about making our community better, we'd go volunteer or work on a local service project together.
Not a church. Not an anti-church. Not a political group.
Just neighbors creating the kind of community many of us wish we had.
Being based in Liberty, MO I've been calling the idea "Liberty Circle" because I love the symbolism of the circle. No one at the head. No one left outside. Just people coming together, making room for one another, and growing together.
Has anyone here been part of something like this? I'd love to hear what worked, what didn't, and what made people keep coming back.
#Community #Belonging #Humanism #CommunityBuilding #Volunteer #LibertyMO #Missouri #SocialConnection
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DATE: July 10, 2026 at 10:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: A student’s “K-factor” predicts university GPA beyond SAT scores and personality
A new study published in Evolutionary Psychological Science reports that students who scored higher on the K-factor tended to have higher university GPAs, even after accounting for SAT scores, personality traits, and parent education.
Although standardized test scores, personality traits, motivation, study habits, and self-regulation are already known to predict university performance, researchers are still interested in identifying additional psychological factors that help explain why some students do better than others.
This research focuses on one such factor: the K-factor, a psychometric measure rooted in life history theory. Broadly, life history theory asks how people allocate limited time and energy across competing demands, such as learning, health, relationships, planning for the future, and immediate rewards. In this context, the K-factor is treated as a marker of a more future-oriented, socially connected, and long-term strategy, which could plausibly support academic success.
Tyler L. Minnigh and colleagues examined whether the K-factor predicts university GPA above and beyond better-established predictors, including SAT scores, Big Five personality traits, broader personality composites, and parent education. While many studies have examined intelligence and personality as predictors of academic achievement, no prior work has directly tested whether a psychometric life history measure predicts university academic performance.
The authors therefore asked whether the K-factor captures a meaningful non-cognitive ingredient of academic success, especially traits related to planning, self-regulation, social support, and investment in long-term goals.
The study included a sample of 272 undergraduate students from Introduction to Psychology courses at a large Southwestern research university. Participants were eligible if they had SAT scores and spoke English as their primary language. Their official SAT scores and cumulative university GPAs were obtained from university records.
Participants completed the 120-item IPIP-NEO personality scale, which measured the Big Five traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. They also completed the 20-item Mini-K scale, which measured the K-factor, and demographic questions about sex, race/ethnicity, and parents’ highest education levels. The researchers also calculated SAT total scores, math-verbal ability tilt, a general factor of personality, and a stability-plasticity personality tilt.
Higher Mini-K scores were weakly but significantly associated with higher GPA, suggesting that students who reported more future-oriented, socially connected, and long-term life-history traits tended to perform somewhat better academically. SAT scores were also positively related to GPA, but parent education did not significantly predict GPA once SAT scores and Mini-K scores were considered together.
Higher Mini-K scores were related to higher conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness, lower neuroticism, and no meaningful relationship with openness. Importantly, Mini-K scores still predicted GPA after accounting for the Big Five traits, including conscientiousness, one of the most established personality predictors of academic performance. In the most detailed model, stability-plasticity personality tilt also predicted GPA, with students who leaned more toward stability than plasticity showing higher grades, but Mini-K scores still explained a modest amount of unique variation.
Of note is that the study relied on the Mini-K as the only measure of life history strategy rather than a longer and broader measure. As well, the design was cross-sectional, with personality and Mini-K scores collected around the same time as GPA. Thus, while findings show that the K-factor is associated with academic performance, they cannot establish whether it predicts later academic success over time.
The study, “The K-factor Predicts University Academic Performance,” was authored by Tyler L. Minnigh, Michael A. Woodley of Menie, Stephanie M. Witherell, and Thomas R. Coyle.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #Kfactor #LifeHistoryTheory #UniversityGPAPrediction #MiniK #AcademicPerformance #Conscientiousness #STEMEducation #SATvsGPA #FutureOriented #SocialConnection
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DATE: July 10, 2026 at 10:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: A student’s “K-factor” predicts university GPA beyond SAT scores and personality
A new study published in Evolutionary Psychological Science reports that students who scored higher on the K-factor tended to have higher university GPAs, even after accounting for SAT scores, personality traits, and parent education.
Although standardized test scores, personality traits, motivation, study habits, and self-regulation are already known to predict university performance, researchers are still interested in identifying additional psychological factors that help explain why some students do better than others.
This research focuses on one such factor: the K-factor, a psychometric measure rooted in life history theory. Broadly, life history theory asks how people allocate limited time and energy across competing demands, such as learning, health, relationships, planning for the future, and immediate rewards. In this context, the K-factor is treated as a marker of a more future-oriented, socially connected, and long-term strategy, which could plausibly support academic success.
Tyler L. Minnigh and colleagues examined whether the K-factor predicts university GPA above and beyond better-established predictors, including SAT scores, Big Five personality traits, broader personality composites, and parent education. While many studies have examined intelligence and personality as predictors of academic achievement, no prior work has directly tested whether a psychometric life history measure predicts university academic performance.
The authors therefore asked whether the K-factor captures a meaningful non-cognitive ingredient of academic success, especially traits related to planning, self-regulation, social support, and investment in long-term goals.
The study included a sample of 272 undergraduate students from Introduction to Psychology courses at a large Southwestern research university. Participants were eligible if they had SAT scores and spoke English as their primary language. Their official SAT scores and cumulative university GPAs were obtained from university records.
Participants completed the 120-item IPIP-NEO personality scale, which measured the Big Five traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. They also completed the 20-item Mini-K scale, which measured the K-factor, and demographic questions about sex, race/ethnicity, and parents’ highest education levels. The researchers also calculated SAT total scores, math-verbal ability tilt, a general factor of personality, and a stability-plasticity personality tilt.
Higher Mini-K scores were weakly but significantly associated with higher GPA, suggesting that students who reported more future-oriented, socially connected, and long-term life-history traits tended to perform somewhat better academically. SAT scores were also positively related to GPA, but parent education did not significantly predict GPA once SAT scores and Mini-K scores were considered together.
Higher Mini-K scores were related to higher conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness, lower neuroticism, and no meaningful relationship with openness. Importantly, Mini-K scores still predicted GPA after accounting for the Big Five traits, including conscientiousness, one of the most established personality predictors of academic performance. In the most detailed model, stability-plasticity personality tilt also predicted GPA, with students who leaned more toward stability than plasticity showing higher grades, but Mini-K scores still explained a modest amount of unique variation.
Of note is that the study relied on the Mini-K as the only measure of life history strategy rather than a longer and broader measure. As well, the design was cross-sectional, with personality and Mini-K scores collected around the same time as GPA. Thus, while findings show that the K-factor is associated with academic performance, they cannot establish whether it predicts later academic success over time.
The study, “The K-factor Predicts University Academic Performance,” was authored by Tyler L. Minnigh, Michael A. Woodley of Menie, Stephanie M. Witherell, and Thomas R. Coyle.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #Kfactor #LifeHistoryTheory #UniversityGPAPrediction #MiniK #AcademicPerformance #Conscientiousness #STEMEducation #SATvsGPA #FutureOriented #SocialConnection
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Stop struggling with awkward eye contact by using the ‘Triangle Method’
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Stop struggling with awkward eye contact by using the ‘Triangle Method’
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Stop struggling with awkward eye contact by using the ‘Triangle Method’
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Stop struggling with awkward eye contact by using the ‘Triangle Method’
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The Cruelty of Not Intruding
Traveling abroad changed how I saw home. Returning from a family visit, I realized America's greatest deficit may not be economic or political but relational. Our celebration of independence often discourages everyday acts of care, leaving many surrounded by love, yet living with profound loneliness.https://lpixa.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/the-cruelty-of-not-intruding/
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The Cruelty of Not Intruding
Traveling abroad changed how I saw home. Returning from a family visit, I realized America's greatest deficit may not be economic or political but relational. Our celebration of independence often discourages everyday acts of care, leaving many surrounded by love, yet living with profound loneliness.https://lpixa.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/the-cruelty-of-not-intruding/
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DATE: June 28, 2026 at 08:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: People who experience a frequent inner void may actually possess higher levels of empathy
People who frequently experience a profound inner void often struggle with maintaining a firm sense of identity and regulating their emotions. A recent smartphone-based study maps how the sensation of emptiness fluctuates from day to day and relates to broader personality challenges. The research was published in Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.
Mental health professionals often hear patients describe feeling a deep void inside, believing that nothing matters, or lacking a sense of who they are. Currently, the most widely used psychiatric diagnostic manual only lists emptiness as a symptom of borderline personality disorder. The manual also restricts this definition by requiring the feeling to be a chronic, unchanging condition. As a result, many psychologists view the sensation as a permanent trait rather than a temporary state that can come and go.
Psychologists are increasingly recognizing that the subjective experience of emptiness extends far beyond a single clinical diagnosis. Previous investigations have connected the feeling to depression, anxiety, and a general lack of purpose in life. It is also often reported by people who do not meet the criteria for any specific mental health disorder. The experience seems to involve a combination of emotional numbness, a severe sense of social disconnection, and a lack of personal fulfillment.
Modern dimensional models of psychology propose that unhealthy personality traits generally fall into two broad areas of dysfunction. The first area involves how a person views themselves, which includes self-direction and maintaining a coherent identity. The second area involves how a person relates to others, which encompasses intimacy and empathy. Because emptiness involves feeling disconnected from the world and detached from oneself, it likely touches upon both of these domains.
Because the feeling is often viewed as a constant state, researchers rarely measure how it might change within a single person over time. Amanda A. Uliaszek, a psychology researcher at the University of Toronto, set out to understand how the feeling of emptiness operates on a daily basis. Along with colleagues Amanda Magurno, Saleena Zedan, and Marc A. Fournier, Uliaszek wanted to see how the trait of emptiness relates to people’s overall personality functioning. They also aimed to determine what factors predict whether a person’s feelings of emptiness are stable or highly variable.
To capture the daily ebb and flow of human emotion, the researchers used a technique called experience sampling. This method involves pinging participants on their smartphones at random times throughout the day to ask them how they are feeling right in that specific moment. Instead of relying on a person’s memory of how they felt over the past month, experience sampling acts like a psychological snapshot. The study included a sample of one hundred and twenty adults from the general community. Seven participants were eventually excluded due to technical issues, leaving one hundred and thirteen individuals in the final analysis.
After completing an initial battery of questionnaires assessing their baseline personality traits and their ability to regulate emotions, the participants downloaded a specialized application to their mobile devices. The regulation survey measured how well people can accept negative feelings, engage in goal-directed behaviors, and maintain emotional clarity. Over the course of fourteen days, the application sent four random alerts each day. At each prompt, the software asked participants to rate how intensely they had felt sad, angry, afraid, or empty during the previous hour. A rating of one meant they did not feel the emotion at all, while a rating of seven meant they felt it extremely.
By analyzing thousands of these daily reports, the research team could distinguish between a person’s average baseline level of emptiness and the way that feeling fluctuated over the two weeks. They compared these daily logs against the initial personality surveys. The results showed that people who reported a higher average level of emptiness were much more likely to suffer from identity disturbances. In particular, a specific trait characterized by feeling as though one completely lacks an identity was a strong predictor of chronic emptiness.
The ability to maintain a consistent sense of self is a core component of healthy personality functioning. When people lack a consolidated identity, they may feel as though they are not real or that they lack a soul. The data suggest that this specific deficit in selfhood is closely tied to the average amount of emptiness a person experiences day-to-day. Surprisingly, the researchers found that a lack of self-direction did not predict elevated feelings of emptiness, even though aimlessness is sometimes assumed to be a behavioral side effect of feeling empty.
The researchers also looked at how stable or unstable the feeling of emptiness was for each person. They found that highly variable feelings of emptiness were associated with different psychological challenges. People whose sense of emptiness spiked and crashed frequently tended to struggle with intimacy in their interpersonal relationships. When individuals lack close, consistent relationships or tend to mirror the behaviors of whomever they are interacting with, their internal environment relies heavily on external social cues. This reliance likely causes their feelings of emptiness to vary from hour to hour based on changing social conditions.
Instability in emptiness was also linked to specific difficulties in emotion regulation. People with highly fluctuating emptiness reported having limited access to effective strategies for coping with negative emotions. They also struggled to understand or accurately identify the emotions they were experiencing. This suggests that varying levels of emptiness might reflect a person’s struggle to adjust negative experiential states and a tendency to respond to confusion with emotional withdrawal.
When looking at the daily prompts, the researchers noted a strong relationship between emptiness and other negative affective states. On occasions when participants reported feeling more sad, afraid, or angry than their personal average, they also reported feeling more empty. Sadness stood out as having an especially tight relationship with the void. Out of all the emotions measured, a person’s overall baseline level of sadness was the only one that predicted their overall baseline level of emptiness. This overlap between sadness and emptiness might explain why clinical depression is so frequently accompanied by complaints of an inner void.
The study also yielded one entirely unexpected finding regarding how people relate to others. When evaluating baseline personality traits, the researchers found that higher average emptiness was associated with a higher capacity for empathy. The authors suggest that people who feel empty might occasionally feel things deeply for others, allowing them to better understand and identify with other people’s pain. They note, however, that this specific result requires replication to see if it holds true in other populations.
While the smartphone tracking offers a detailed look at daily life, the study has a few limitations. The researchers measured the momentary feeling of emptiness using a single question, rather than a comprehensive, multi-item survey. Future daily tracking studies could benefit from a more expansive way to measure the nuances of the emotional void.
The sample was also drawn from the general community, meaning the participants generally exhibited relatively low baseline levels of negative emotions. Conducting a similar assessment in a clinical population might reveal different patterns or stronger associations. Because the researchers analyzed daily emotions without looking at time delays between the prompts, they could not determine whether feeling empty causes sadness or if sadness causes a person to feel empty.
The study, “Emptiness, Personality Dysfunction, and Emotion Dysregulation: An Experience Sampling Study,” was authored by Amanda A. Uliaszek, Amanda Magurno, Saleena Zedan, and Marc A. Fournier.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #Emptiness #Empathy #MentalHealthResearch #ExperienceSampling #IdentityDisturbance #EmotionRegulation #PersonalityTraits #DailyEmotions #SocialConnection #PsychologyStudies
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DATE: June 28, 2026 at 08:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: People who experience a frequent inner void may actually possess higher levels of empathy
People who frequently experience a profound inner void often struggle with maintaining a firm sense of identity and regulating their emotions. A recent smartphone-based study maps how the sensation of emptiness fluctuates from day to day and relates to broader personality challenges. The research was published in Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.
Mental health professionals often hear patients describe feeling a deep void inside, believing that nothing matters, or lacking a sense of who they are. Currently, the most widely used psychiatric diagnostic manual only lists emptiness as a symptom of borderline personality disorder. The manual also restricts this definition by requiring the feeling to be a chronic, unchanging condition. As a result, many psychologists view the sensation as a permanent trait rather than a temporary state that can come and go.
Psychologists are increasingly recognizing that the subjective experience of emptiness extends far beyond a single clinical diagnosis. Previous investigations have connected the feeling to depression, anxiety, and a general lack of purpose in life. It is also often reported by people who do not meet the criteria for any specific mental health disorder. The experience seems to involve a combination of emotional numbness, a severe sense of social disconnection, and a lack of personal fulfillment.
Modern dimensional models of psychology propose that unhealthy personality traits generally fall into two broad areas of dysfunction. The first area involves how a person views themselves, which includes self-direction and maintaining a coherent identity. The second area involves how a person relates to others, which encompasses intimacy and empathy. Because emptiness involves feeling disconnected from the world and detached from oneself, it likely touches upon both of these domains.
Because the feeling is often viewed as a constant state, researchers rarely measure how it might change within a single person over time. Amanda A. Uliaszek, a psychology researcher at the University of Toronto, set out to understand how the feeling of emptiness operates on a daily basis. Along with colleagues Amanda Magurno, Saleena Zedan, and Marc A. Fournier, Uliaszek wanted to see how the trait of emptiness relates to people’s overall personality functioning. They also aimed to determine what factors predict whether a person’s feelings of emptiness are stable or highly variable.
To capture the daily ebb and flow of human emotion, the researchers used a technique called experience sampling. This method involves pinging participants on their smartphones at random times throughout the day to ask them how they are feeling right in that specific moment. Instead of relying on a person’s memory of how they felt over the past month, experience sampling acts like a psychological snapshot. The study included a sample of one hundred and twenty adults from the general community. Seven participants were eventually excluded due to technical issues, leaving one hundred and thirteen individuals in the final analysis.
After completing an initial battery of questionnaires assessing their baseline personality traits and their ability to regulate emotions, the participants downloaded a specialized application to their mobile devices. The regulation survey measured how well people can accept negative feelings, engage in goal-directed behaviors, and maintain emotional clarity. Over the course of fourteen days, the application sent four random alerts each day. At each prompt, the software asked participants to rate how intensely they had felt sad, angry, afraid, or empty during the previous hour. A rating of one meant they did not feel the emotion at all, while a rating of seven meant they felt it extremely.
By analyzing thousands of these daily reports, the research team could distinguish between a person’s average baseline level of emptiness and the way that feeling fluctuated over the two weeks. They compared these daily logs against the initial personality surveys. The results showed that people who reported a higher average level of emptiness were much more likely to suffer from identity disturbances. In particular, a specific trait characterized by feeling as though one completely lacks an identity was a strong predictor of chronic emptiness.
The ability to maintain a consistent sense of self is a core component of healthy personality functioning. When people lack a consolidated identity, they may feel as though they are not real or that they lack a soul. The data suggest that this specific deficit in selfhood is closely tied to the average amount of emptiness a person experiences day-to-day. Surprisingly, the researchers found that a lack of self-direction did not predict elevated feelings of emptiness, even though aimlessness is sometimes assumed to be a behavioral side effect of feeling empty.
The researchers also looked at how stable or unstable the feeling of emptiness was for each person. They found that highly variable feelings of emptiness were associated with different psychological challenges. People whose sense of emptiness spiked and crashed frequently tended to struggle with intimacy in their interpersonal relationships. When individuals lack close, consistent relationships or tend to mirror the behaviors of whomever they are interacting with, their internal environment relies heavily on external social cues. This reliance likely causes their feelings of emptiness to vary from hour to hour based on changing social conditions.
Instability in emptiness was also linked to specific difficulties in emotion regulation. People with highly fluctuating emptiness reported having limited access to effective strategies for coping with negative emotions. They also struggled to understand or accurately identify the emotions they were experiencing. This suggests that varying levels of emptiness might reflect a person’s struggle to adjust negative experiential states and a tendency to respond to confusion with emotional withdrawal.
When looking at the daily prompts, the researchers noted a strong relationship between emptiness and other negative affective states. On occasions when participants reported feeling more sad, afraid, or angry than their personal average, they also reported feeling more empty. Sadness stood out as having an especially tight relationship with the void. Out of all the emotions measured, a person’s overall baseline level of sadness was the only one that predicted their overall baseline level of emptiness. This overlap between sadness and emptiness might explain why clinical depression is so frequently accompanied by complaints of an inner void.
The study also yielded one entirely unexpected finding regarding how people relate to others. When evaluating baseline personality traits, the researchers found that higher average emptiness was associated with a higher capacity for empathy. The authors suggest that people who feel empty might occasionally feel things deeply for others, allowing them to better understand and identify with other people’s pain. They note, however, that this specific result requires replication to see if it holds true in other populations.
While the smartphone tracking offers a detailed look at daily life, the study has a few limitations. The researchers measured the momentary feeling of emptiness using a single question, rather than a comprehensive, multi-item survey. Future daily tracking studies could benefit from a more expansive way to measure the nuances of the emotional void.
The sample was also drawn from the general community, meaning the participants generally exhibited relatively low baseline levels of negative emotions. Conducting a similar assessment in a clinical population might reveal different patterns or stronger associations. Because the researchers analyzed daily emotions without looking at time delays between the prompts, they could not determine whether feeling empty causes sadness or if sadness causes a person to feel empty.
The study, “Emptiness, Personality Dysfunction, and Emotion Dysregulation: An Experience Sampling Study,” was authored by Amanda A. Uliaszek, Amanda Magurno, Saleena Zedan, and Marc A. Fournier.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #Emptiness #Empathy #MentalHealthResearch #ExperienceSampling #IdentityDisturbance #EmotionRegulation #PersonalityTraits #DailyEmotions #SocialConnection #PsychologyStudies
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Loneliness In Remote Workers Is Rising Here’s How To Combat Isolation When Working From Home
Loneliness Awareness Week is fast approaching and for many remote workers, isolation has become second nature. If you’re part of the work-from-home force and the loneliness has hit, here are our top tips to stay connected. For some people, working from home feels like a huge win: the flexibility, the work-life balance, the non-existent commute. But for others, being stuck at home alone all day, every day can feel like an isolating curse......Continue reading... By: Lily Smith Source: […]https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/06/11/loneliness-in-remote-workers/
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Loneliness In Remote Workers Is Rising Here’s How To Combat Isolation When Working From Home
Loneliness Awareness Week is fast approaching and for many remote workers, isolation has become second nature. If you’re part of the work-from-home force and the loneliness has hit, here are our top tips to stay connected. For some people, working from home feels like a huge win: the flexibility, the work-life balance, the non-existent commute. But for others, being stuck at home alone all day, every day can feel like an isolating curse......Continue reading... By: Lily Smith Source: […]https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/06/11/loneliness-in-remote-workers/
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THE EROSION OF CONNECTION: FRIENDSHIP'S DIMINISHING RETURN IN A LONELY AGE
People spend less time with friends in 2026. This causes more loneliness and health problems. Learn why.
#FriendshipRecession, #LonelinessEpidemic, #ModernLife, #SocialConnection, #MentalHealth
https://newsletter.tf/friendship-time-drops-under-60-mins-daily-loneliness/
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THE EROSION OF CONNECTION: FRIENDSHIP'S DIMINISHING RETURN IN A LONELY AGE
People spend less time with friends in 2026. This causes more loneliness and health problems. Learn why.
#FriendshipRecession, #LonelinessEpidemic, #ModernLife, #SocialConnection, #MentalHealth
https://newsletter.tf/friendship-time-drops-under-60-mins-daily-loneliness/
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People now spend much less than 60 minutes daily with friends, a big drop from before. This makes loneliness worse.
#FriendshipRecession, #LonelinessEpidemic, #ModernLife, #SocialConnection, #MentalHealth
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People now spend much less than 60 minutes daily with friends, a big drop from before. This makes loneliness worse.
#FriendshipRecession, #LonelinessEpidemic, #ModernLife, #SocialConnection, #MentalHealth
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Ipswich Cooking Group Strengthens Community Bonds Through Shared Meals
Arabic version: مجموعة الطهي في إبسويتش تعزز الروابط المجتمعية من خلال الوجبات المشتركة The Gailes Community House in Ipswich is fostering social connections through a weekly cooking group that has been operati…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #community #cookinggroup #Ipswich #Mentalhealth #socialconnection
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Ipswich Cooking Group Strengthens Community Bonds Through Shared Meals
Arabic version: مجموعة الطهي في إبسويتش تعزز الروابط المجتمعية من خلال الوجبات المشتركة The Gailes Community House in Ipswich is fostering social connections through a weekly cooking group that has been operati…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #community #cookinggroup #Ipswich #Mentalhealth #socialconnection
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Ipswich Cooking Group Strengthens Community Bonds Through Shared Meals https://www.diningandcooking.com/2585734/ipswich-cooking-group-strengthens-community-bonds-through-shared-meals/ #community #Cooking #CookingGroup #Ipswich #MentalHealth #SocialConnection
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Ipswich Cooking Group Strengthens Community Bonds Through Shared Meals https://www.diningandcooking.com/2585734/ipswich-cooking-group-strengthens-community-bonds-through-shared-meals/ #community #Cooking #CookingGroup #Ipswich #MentalHealth #SocialConnection
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Stop struggling with awkward eye contact by using the 'Triangle Method'
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In a world that magnifies division, gardens bring us together.
Have you ever visited a community garden?
- Yes
- Not Yetwww.globalactionplan.ie
#CommunityGardens #GrowTogether #Belonging #SocialConnection #Wellbeing
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In a world that magnifies division, gardens bring us together.
Have you ever visited a community garden?
- Yes
- Not Yetwww.globalactionplan.ie
#CommunityGardens #GrowTogether #Belonging #SocialConnection #Wellbeing
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Our hope is that our guidelines can elevate the importance of #socialconnection to the same level as basic public health practices such as exercising, not smoking and relying on a designated driver when you go out drinking with friends.
https://theconversation.com/we-created-health-guidelines-for-fighting-loneliness-heres-what-we-recommend-268560 -
Our hope is that our guidelines can elevate the importance of #socialconnection to the same level as basic public health practices such as exercising, not smoking and relying on a designated driver when you go out drinking with friends.
https://theconversation.com/we-created-health-guidelines-for-fighting-loneliness-heres-what-we-recommend-268560 -
🧑🤝🧑 30% der Baden-Württemberger sind von Einsamkeit betroffen – 8% Prozent davon besonders stark.
👉 Eine neue Studie der Bertelsmann Stiftung, die das Land in Auftrag gegeben hat, hat ergeben, dass v.a. soziale, gesundheitliche und wirtschaftliche Faktoren Einsamkeit begünstigen. Die Landesregierung nimmt das zum Anlass, einen großen Ideenwettbewerb zu starten und investiert dafür 750.000 Euro. Die Ideen sollen der Einsamkeit entgegenwirken – von folgenden Gruppen:
🧑🤝🧑 Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte
🧑🤝🧑 Junge Menschen
🧑🤝🧑 Menschen mit Behinderungen / Menschen mit chronischen Erkrankungen sowie deren Angehörige
🧑🤝🧑 Ältere Menschen
🧑🤝🧑 Eltern in besonderen Lebenssituationen❗ Bewerbungen können bis zum 31.1.2026 über [email protected] eingereicht werden.
#Einsamkeit #MentalHealth #Loneliness #SocialConnection #Gesundheit -
🧑🤝🧑 30% der Baden-Württemberger sind von Einsamkeit betroffen – 8% Prozent davon besonders stark.
👉 Eine neue Studie der Bertelsmann Stiftung, die das Land in Auftrag gegeben hat, hat ergeben, dass v.a. soziale, gesundheitliche und wirtschaftliche Faktoren Einsamkeit begünstigen. Die Landesregierung nimmt das zum Anlass, einen großen Ideenwettbewerb zu starten und investiert dafür 750.000 Euro. Die Ideen sollen der Einsamkeit entgegenwirken – von folgenden Gruppen:
🧑🤝🧑 Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte
🧑🤝🧑 Junge Menschen
🧑🤝🧑 Menschen mit Behinderungen / Menschen mit chronischen Erkrankungen sowie deren Angehörige
🧑🤝🧑 Ältere Menschen
🧑🤝🧑 Eltern in besonderen Lebenssituationen❗ Bewerbungen können bis zum 31.1.2026 über [email protected] eingereicht werden.
#Einsamkeit #MentalHealth #Loneliness #SocialConnection #Gesundheit -
Man's response to his girlfriend's hormonal breakdown taught 2.7 million people how to love again
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/man-wins-with-crashout-response
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Planned a fun activity with friends. Laughter and good company is the best medicine. #friendsarefamily #socialconnection
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Planned a fun activity with friends. Laughter and good company is the best medicine. #friendsarefamily #socialconnection
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/303143/ The best places to retire in Britain revealed #BournemouthEast #Britain #Buckinghamshire #CheshamAndAmersham #England #FinancialSecurity #GreatBritain #london #Monmouthshire #NorthernIreland #Scotland #SeniorHousing #SocialConnection #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales
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An Introduction to Tribalism for the Modern World That Has Forgotten It
https://sustainableviews.substack.com/p/an-introduction-to-tribalism-for
#HackerNews #Tribalism #ModernWorld #SocialDynamics #CommunityCulture #SocialConnection
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An Introduction to Tribalism for the Modern World That Has Forgotten It
https://sustainableviews.substack.com/p/an-introduction-to-tribalism-for
#HackerNews #Tribalism #ModernWorld #SocialDynamics #CommunityCulture #SocialConnection
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From Medications to Mindfulness: New Frontiers in Emotional and Social Care
#Neuroscience #EmotionalHealth #SocialBehavior #Neuroplasticity #MentalHealth #BrainResearch #Psychotherapy #DepressionTreatment #AutismSupport #SocialConnection #Mindfulness #Neurostimulation #PsychedelicTherapy #EmotionalIntelligence #MentalWellness #InnovationInHealth #ConnectAndHeal
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From Neurons to Society: Exploring the Brain’s Role in Empathy and Social Bonds
#SocialNeuroscience #Mindfulness #BrainPlasticity #Empathy #NeuroScience #MentalHealth #Compassion #Neuroplasticity #SocialConnection #SelfGrowth #ScientificDiscovery #HumanConnection
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From Neurons to Society: Exploring the Brain’s Role in Empathy and Social Bonds
#SocialNeuroscience #Mindfulness #BrainPlasticity #Empathy #NeuroScience #MentalHealth #Compassion #Neuroplasticity #SocialConnection #SelfGrowth #ScientificDiscovery #HumanConnection
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Oh, the wondrous days when people connected over a crossword clue and not just a swipe! 📚✨ Diksha's musings on the profound link between #Hinge and fictional TV #nostalgia are sure to solve world hunger — or at least fill up a few idle minutes. 😏🔍 Thank goodness for the #innovation of reminiscing about the obvious!
https://www.dikshaupadhyay.com/p/matched-and-deleted #crosswordclue #socialconnection #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh, the wondrous days when people connected over a crossword clue and not just a swipe! 📚✨ Diksha's musings on the profound link between #Hinge and fictional TV #nostalgia are sure to solve world hunger — or at least fill up a few idle minutes. 😏🔍 Thank goodness for the #innovation of reminiscing about the obvious!
https://www.dikshaupadhyay.com/p/matched-and-deleted #crosswordclue #socialconnection #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation [pdf] — https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf
#HackerNews #EpidemicOfLoneliness #SocialConnection #MentalHealth #Isolation #Awareness #Community -
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation [pdf] — https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf
#HackerNews #EpidemicOfLoneliness #SocialConnection #MentalHealth #Isolation #Awareness #Community