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Tag: Emotional Support
“Pets make you spend more!” Impact of pet ownership on consumer purchase decisions
Abstract Pet ownership has become increasingly popular, making it important to understand whether and how it affects consumers’ purchase decisions. Using pet ownership as an exogenous shock, we employed a difference-in-differences (DID) method with propensity score matching (PSM) to estimate…
Adult Children Get Less Support in Separated Families
A recent study finds that families with separated parents provide less financial and emotional support to their adult children.
Children Suffering Adversity More Likely to Thrive When Parents Are Emotionally Supported
Emotional support for parents may bolster family resilience and help young children flourish despite adversity, according to a Rutgers study.
Mount Sinai Researchers Use Wearable Devices to Identify Psychological Effects of Pandemic
Study links changes in heart rate variability with degree of resilience, as part of larger effort to understand and mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on health care workers
Coping in College? Female Students Much More Stressed Than Their Male Counterparts
Researchers measured both the psychological perception of stress and evaluated how undergraduate males and females cope with stress. The differences are vast. Females experienced much higher levels of stress than males and used emotion-focused approaches to cope more than males. Females used self-distractions, emotional support and venting as coping strategies. Male students on the other hand sought much lower levels of support, since they either may lack the social network or may not have developed those skills.