All Blog Posts Tagged 'blogging' (2)

Our Creative Cafe member Mandy Lawrence is one of the prominent bloggers interviewed in the programme on Radio 4 tomorrow night 9.00pm UK time. 21:00 All in the Mind 2 December 2008 Claudia Hammond presents the series exploring current developments in psychology and psychiatry and examines the rising popularity of mental health blogs. Two prominent bloggers explain why they think the blogosphere is proving to be so important in m… Continue

I have now seen two pieces of research that show blogging is good for your mental health. The first paper ‘Distress, Coping and Blogging: Comparing New Myspace Users by Their Intention to Blog’ originally published in the journal CyberPsychology & Behaviour was conducted by Professor Susan Moore and student James Baker at Swinbourne University of Technology. In 2006 Baker randomly surveyed users of the MySpace social networking site about their intention to keep a blog. He messaged 600 ne… Continue