A research synthesis was conducted to examine the relationship between a written emotional expression task and subsequent health. This writing task was found to lead to significantly improved health outcomes in healthy participants. Health was enhanced in 4 outcome types--reported physical health, psychological well-being, physiological functioning, and general functioning--but health behaviors...

A robust literature suggests that suicide is socially contagious; however, we know little about how and why suicide spreads. Using network data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we examine the effects of alter's (1) disclosed and (2) undisclosed suicide attempts, (3) suicide ideation, and (4) emotional distress on ego's mental health one year later to gain insi...

Adjustment is one of the most important psychological activities of human being. Life is a process of adjustment. If anyone wants satisfaction in life, then one has to adjust with their environment. The present study was conducted on the students of two collegesone urban and one rural of Jammu region. The main objective of the study was to identify the adjustment problems among college going st...

Mental health is a balance between all aspect of life – social, Physical, Spiritual and emotional aspect of a person. Adolescence is a period of transition which leads to emotional instability, lack of adjustment in expressing views and opinions and lack of understanding their parent and teacher. The family system is not only to contribute much for the developmental aspect of the child as a res...