{"id":15177,"date":"2024-07-18T15:38:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T13:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/doomscrolling-linked-to-existential-anxiety-distrust-suspicion-and-despair-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T15:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T13:38:22","slug":"doomscrolling-linked-to-existential-anxiety-distrust-suspicion-and-despair-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/doomscrolling-linked-to-existential-anxiety-distrust-suspicion-and-despair-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomscrolling linked to existential anxiety, distrust, suspicion and despair, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One expert compared doomscrolling to being in a room where people are constantly yelling at you, and says media needs to rethink news<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Does scrolling your phone give you an existential crisis? That\u2019s the question a team of international experts have sought to answer in a study published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S245195882400071X?via%3Dihub\">Journal of Computers in Human Behavior Reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers surveyed 800 university students from the US and Iran and found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/audio\/2024\/jan\/29\/how-to-stop-doomscrolling-full-story-podcast\">doomscrolling<\/a> \u2013 or spending excessive time consuming negative news \u2013 was linked to feelings of existential anxiety, distrust and suspicion of others, and despair.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/19\/doomscrolling-linked-to-existential-anxiety-distrust-suspicion-and-despair-study-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e44e4f249e10e94b3240bd75fd2f222927af113c\/0_0_8256_4954\/master\/8256.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8b50a44048fb65c09dd0dafd1a79ac6a\" title=\"Doomscrolling linked to existential anxiety, distrust, suspicion and despair, study finds\" \/>One expert compared doomscrolling to being in a room where people are constantly yelling at you, and says media needs to rethink news<br \/>\nGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>Does scrolling your phone give you an existential crisis? That\u2019s the question a team of international experts have sought to answer in a study published in the Journal of Computers in Human Behavior Reports.<br \/>\nResearchers surveyed 800 university students from the US and Iran and found that doomscrolling \u2013 or spending excessive time consuming negative news \u2013 was linked to feelings of existential anxiety, distrust and suspicion of others, and despair.<br \/>\nSign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One expert compared doomscrolling to being in a room where people are constantly yelling at you, and says media needs to rethink news Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Does scrolling your phone give you an existential crisis? That\u2019s the question a team of international experts have sought &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/doomscrolling-linked-to-existential-anxiety-distrust-suspicion-and-despair-study-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Doomscrolling linked to existential anxiety, distrust, suspicion and despair, study finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}