Background: Hobbies may be used on the residency application to communicate similarity other members of their desired specialty or uniqueness. Objectives: This study aimed determine most common hobbies among emergency medicine (EM) applicants and whether they differ from reported applicants. Methods: was a two-center retrospective review at large U.S. midwestern academic institutions with 3- 4-...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate longitudinal relations between leisure and social activities and mental health status, considering the presence or absence of other persons in the activity as an additional variable, among middle-aged adults in Japan. This study used nationally representative data in Japan with a five-year follow-up period. METHODS This study focused on 16,642 middle...

The article by Coates et al. (1) adds interesting evidence that a low 2D:4D ratio in men predicts success, not only in sports (2, 3) or music (4), but also in job performance. According to the authors, low-2D:4D traders perform better (i.e., they earn more) because of basic characteristics: rapid visuomotor scanning and physical reflexes. However, they overlook another frugal explanation for th...

This study investigated the effects of leisure and social activities on the ability of middle-aged adults to maintain activities of daily living (ADL), and whether performing these activities alone or with others contributed to the ability to perform ADL. The study used nationally representative longitudinal data of 22,770 adults in Japan, aged 50-59 years, who did not have limitations in perfo...

BACKGROUND We developed and validated an instrument to measure community-level social capital based on data derived from older community dwellers in Japan. METHODS We used cross-sectional data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, a nationwide survey involving 123,760 functionally independent older people nested within 702 communities (i.e., school districts). We conducted explorato...