A Blog as Therapy for Teenagers
By: Pamela Paul
Date published: January 27, 2012; Date accessed: January 30, 2012
Summary: A study about blogging relieving stress by blogging in teenagers was conducted in Israel by the psychology professors at the University of Haifa. The experiment consisted of six groups of teenagers. Two groups were to blog twice a week about their stress, another two groups were to blog about whatever struck them. And the last two groups were told to either write an old fashioned diary or do nothing as a control to the experiment. At the end the blogs were given to the therapists to read over. In conclusion, the professors found out that the groups with blogging on stress were the most effective in relieving stress.
Response: This study on stress reliever by blogging has in a way inaccurate way to measure the results. However, blogging and also be very stressful when it has deadlines like this English assignment. People have different ways to relieve their stress. Some people or teenagers like me do not find blogging that useful for I am not a writer. Blogging may help to relieve stress but there are many other ways as well.
Vocabulary:
1. Adolescent (noun)
a. “After several paragraphs of spewing onto paper adolescent angst about cafeteria slights, unreciprocated crushes and oversize thighs, the diarist often felt better.”
b. One that is in the state of adolescence (growing up). Origin: Latin adolescere; first use in 15th century. (Merriam-webster.com)
c. The students in grade nine are going through adolescent.
2. Skew (verb)
a. “To track teenagers’ experiences with blogging, the researchers randomly surveyed high school students in Israel and selected 161 of them (124 girls and 37 boys, a significant gender skew) who exhibited some level of social anxiety or stress.”
b. To take an oblique course. Origin: Middle English to escape. (Merriam-webster.com)
c. The students in history class were skewing over the next period test.
3. Therapeutic (adjective)
a. “Research has long backed the therapeutic value of diary-keeping for teenage girls and boys. But according to a new study, when teenagers detail their woes onto a blog, the therapeutic value is even greater. Blogging, it seems, can be good for you.”
b. Of or relating to the treatment of disease or disorders by remedial agents or methods. Origin: Greek therapeutikos, to attend/ treat; first use in 1646.
c. Classrooms can never be therapeutic for the students unless they are sleeping.
haha I like how this post is so connected to what we are doing for Mr. P and self-improvement. And you are right that this helps but perhaps not all of us.
ReplyDeleteThere were just few grammar errors that made me reread the sentences, but overall I got your idea, and it's really great :)
Perhaps, you can improve this by elaborating your response with examples that help releasing stress.
Thanks for the idea. Maybe next month you can blog about whatever's stressful in your life. And THAT should reduce your stress!
ReplyDeleteYour post is really interesting as it encourages us to write more to relieve the stress we all go through in W.S. I like your writing and explanation of the article, however I think you can improve on your analysis by writing more about it.
ReplyDeleteI chose this article as well. I think you did a pretty okay job in summarizing it. However, your response to this article is very weak.
ReplyDelete1. You said, "This study on stress reliever by blogging has in a way inaccurate way to measure the results." You only said it is inaccurate, you didn't mention WHY it is not accurate.
2. "However, blogging and also be very stressful when it has deadlines like this English assignment." This English blogging assignment is actually not the BLOGGING that they are talking about in this article. We are writing for the sake of practicing English and completing a task for our English class. On the other hand, the blogging mentioned in the article REAL BLOGGING, where you write what you want and what you care about. Therefore, our blogging shouldn't be used as a comparison to conclusion of this study.
Your post shows very little effort in editing. There are some obvious grammatical errors in the response section.
Good linkage with the blogs and grade 11 ap english. It affects everyone in our grade, because we have to write blogs. On other blogs I usually looked at articles that had nothing really to do with blogging. Good research.
ReplyDeleteTo improve your writing: in the first line of your summary you wrote "A study about blogging relieving stress by blogging in teenagers was conducted in Israel by the psychology professors at the University of Haifa." You have two times the word blogging in that sentence, if you read it out loud it does not sound that good. Instead of blogging write "my writing a blog" for the second blogging word.
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AWESOME ARTICLE!!! Just a few confusing sentences (which are rather funny so I won't bother correcting), otherwise great job. I love your opinion about it and actually laughed reading it. By the way I really agree with the news article. I often include my anger or stress while doing the English blogs and it helps a lot. Writing is a great way to relieve stress.
ReplyDeleteI think that writing journals in the "old fashioned" way is more effective in order to release stress. I used to write journals a couple of years ago and it did help me to be open to myself. However, writing blogs just stresses me out and I am not really open when I do so. Blogs being public and journals being private could be one of the reasons to my uneasiness.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds interesting. Maybe I should blog more to relieve my stress. Nah. I am just kidding. As already mentioned before, there were a few grammatical error but those are not really important except for AP prick. You should have elaborated more about a few points like why writing relieved stress.
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