{"id":6937,"date":"2022-09-06T08:39:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T06:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/06\/doomscrolling-linked-to-poor-physical-and-mental-health-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T08:39:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T06:39:35","slug":"doomscrolling-linked-to-poor-physical-and-mental-health-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/06\/doomscrolling-linked-to-poor-physical-and-mental-health-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomscrolling linked to poor physical and mental health, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tendency to be glued to bad news can spark a \u2018vicious cycle\u2019 that interferes with our lives, researcher says<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no shortage of bad news in the media to \u201cdoomscroll\u201d, from a global pandemic to the war in Ukraine and an impending climate crisis, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10410236.2022.2106086\">new research<\/a> suggests the compulsive urge to surf the web can lead to poor mental and physical health outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Doomscrolling is the tendency to \u201ccontinue to surf or scroll through bad news, even though that news is saddening, disheartening or depressing\u201d, a practice researchers found has <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/five-ways-to-manage-your-doomscrolling-habit-183265#:~:text=Doomscrolling%2C%20according%20to%20Merriam-Webster,%2C%20disheartening%2C%20or%20depressing%E2%80%9D.\">boomed<\/a> since the onset of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2022\/sep\/06\/doomscrolling-linked-to-poor-physical-and-mental-health-study-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6e8b4815133e7bdb52a0563e8d832b550f512b08\/0_212_7699_4621\/master\/7699.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e6fca8072d638b9e340cc00d5bd7c50b\" title=\"Doomscrolling linked to poor physical and mental health, study finds\" \/>The tendency to be glued to bad news can spark a \u2018vicious cycle\u2019 that interferes with our lives, researcher says<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no shortage of bad news in the media to \u201cdoomscroll\u201d, from a global pandemic to the war in Ukraine and an impending climate crisis, but new research suggests the compulsive urge to surf the web can lead to poor mental and physical health outcomes.<br \/>\nDoomscrolling is the tendency to \u201ccontinue to surf or scroll through bad news, even though that news is saddening, disheartening or depressing\u201d, a practice researchers found has boomed since the onset of the pandemic. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tendency to be glued to bad news can spark a \u2018vicious cycle\u2019 that interferes with our lives, researcher says There\u2019s no shortage of bad news in the media to \u201cdoomscroll\u201d, from a global pandemic to the war in Ukraine and an impending climate crisis, but new research suggests the compulsive urge to surf the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/06\/doomscrolling-linked-to-poor-physical-and-mental-health-study-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Doomscrolling linked to poor physical and mental health, study finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6938,"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\/6937"}],"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=6937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}