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Three reasons why your sports watch cannot measure stress

SHARE YOUR SCIENCE: The most crucial element in managing stress is, and will always be, you - how you interact with the world and manage the universal challenges we all face.

How are we affected by financial stress?

Just the thought of an unexpected bill can make us function worse, researcher says.

Christmas stress in the past and now: “We complain much more than my mother's generation”

We have it easier today than before, one researcher believes. Christmas is still demanding and complicated, believes another.

The third week in kindergarten is the most stressful, saliva from one-year-olds reveals

Although the childcare staff thought their new children were beginning to settle in, cortisol measurements showed that the children were still stressed.

Adolescents living with pain experience more stress in everyday life

Norwegian researchers have looked more closely at young people's own experiences with pain.

Your brain doesn’t get any younger from studying

Our brain shrinks as we get older. Higher education doesn’t help us then, as researchers previously believed.

Have we lost a generation of children during the Corona pandemic?

OPINION: I fear that we are neglecting the children most in need because of a Eurocentric focus on the Covid-19 pandemic.

Financial worries gave Norwegians symptoms of PTSD when the pandemic hit the country

Worrying about losing your income is extremely stressful, says researcher.

Violence and abuse in childhood linked to more stress hormones in pregnancy

New findings may help explain how the effects of traumatic events are passed on from one generation to the next. One psychologist says the findings are extremely interesting, but also very disturbing.

PTSD patients show more signs of inflammation after psychotherapy

People with post-traumatic stress disorder often have signs of inflammation in the body. But even though psychotherapy reduced their stress level, the inflammation became worse, shows new study.

Teaching students to go easier on themselves

A two-week long course on self-compassion made university students less depressed and improved their mental health.

This stresses pupils at school

Is school the problem? Is it parents? Or the pupils themselves? Norwegian researchers have compiled and compared information from over 2,000 international studies on the theme of stress in school. They found a variety of answers.

The darker side of workouts

Do you exercise to escape from a depressing daily life? If so, think twice next time before putting on those jogging shoes.

Appreciating life more after a terrorist attack

A Norwegian study shows that some people find a silver lining in the aftermath of posttraumatic stress.

Acute family stress can impact a child’s immune system

High levels of stress in a family can undermine a child’s immune system, making it easier for viruses and bacteria to do their worst.

Pupils stressed out from school computers

Merely investing in school computers without a strategy is counter-productive, suggests Swedish research. Pupils struggle with finding reliable information online.

One in three teenagers suffers chronic stress

A third of all Swedish 16-year-olds are seriously stressed out, according to a new survey. Nearly one in ten also had symptoms of acute burnout.

Referees are not affected by stress

Soccer referees say they are impervious to pressure from players, coaches and the crowds.

How stress affects conception

Stress can make it harder to conceive, but Christmas stress isn’t necessarily a crisis for would-be parents.

Heart attacks strike the spouse too

The surviving spouse is worse afflicted when the husband or wife died from a heart attack, than if they died of other causes. The spouse suffers also when their partner survives the infarct.

How much of a workaholic are you?

Norwegian researchers have developed a new tool enabling you to find out how hard it is for you to leave your work behind. Test yourself here.

Mental robustness wards off woes

Being mentally robust can help against illnesses and decrease absences from work.