A new study found that spousal education is positively related to people’s overall health, with an effect size that rivals the impact of a person’s own education. According to a study by Indiana University researchers, the answer is yes. The study, published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, found that spousal education is…

A new study reports that bullying victimization may increase the risk of suicide attempts among young adolescents by approximately 3-times worldwide. «Globally, approximately 67,000 adolescents die of suicide each year and identifying modifiable risk factors for adolescent suicide is a public health priority,» said lead author Ai Koyanagi, MD, and Research Professor at Parc Sanitari…

Bullying at boarding schools has a negative impact on students’ emotional health, but for male students, having a school staff member to rely on for support may mute the harmful effects of bullying, according to a new study. Support networks did not have the same effect for female students, the researchers say. The study, recently…

The growing number of children arriving at Texas schools unvaccinated makes the state increasingly vulnerable to measles outbreaks in cities large and small, according to a computer simulation. The findings indicate that a 5% further decrease in vaccination rates that have been on a downward trend since 2003 would increase the size of a potential…

When scientists and others use their specialized jargon terms while communicating with the general public, the effects are much worse than just making what they’re saying hard to understand. In a new study, people exposed to jargon when reading about subjects like self-driving cars and surgical robots later said they were less interested in science…

When the daily stress of parenting becomes chronic it can turn into parental burnout, an intense exhaustion that leads parents to feel detached from their children and unsure of their parenting abilities, according to new research. This type of burnout can have serious consequences for both parent and child, increasing parental neglect, harm, and thoughts…

A pair of biomarkers of brain function — one that represents ‘listening effort,’ and another that measures ability to process rapid changes in frequencies — may help to explain why a person with normal hearing may struggle to follow conversations in noisy environments. The researchers hoped the study could inform the design of next-generation clinical…

While having a variety of choices is widely seen as a positive consequence of economic development, what impact does this explosion of choice have on the psyche of the individual, and further, society as a whole? «America is called the republic of choice,» said Shilpa Madan, assistant professor of marketing in the Pamplin College of…

Researchers have found that the reason there are more undergraduate men than women majoring in physics, engineering and computer science is not because men are higher achievers. On the contrary, the scholars found that men with very low high-school GPAs in math and science and very low SAT math scores were choosing these math-intensive majors…

Immigrant parents worry their children will struggle with reading and fret that as non-English speakers, they can’t help. A new study shows that’s simply not true. Reading to a young child in any language will likely help them learn to read in English. Importantly, when the researchers factored in how well the students spoke English,…