stress

Helpful tips for the quarantined, social distancers and parents

According to a new UCI-led study, it’s not just how much media exposure an individual has to collective trauma but also the graphic quality of what one sees that may make a person more vulnerable to trauma-related mental and physical health problems over time. The team analyzed the results from more than 3,000 anonymous online […]

Big data study is first to capture real-time psychological responses to false alarm

UCI researchers find that it can heighten people’s anxiety about and response to future events

Unfortunately, viewing them exacerbates anxiety, according to first-of-its-kind research

First-of-its-kind research conducted in Florida before Hurricane Irma hit

Possession, not use, of a mobile phone counteracts feelings of isolation, UCI-led study finds

People who rely on social media encounter more rumors, report greater distress

Did your New Year’s resolution involve making a fresh start? Letting go and living better? Reviving body and mind? If those good intentions vanished with your first pressing deadline of 2011 or the daily bumper-car commute, Leigh Poirier Ball is here to help. As acting director of the UC Irvine Health Education Center, Poirier Ball assists […]

Psychologist Salvatore R. Maddi remembers when one of his graduate students at the University of Chicago showed him an article in Family Circle that warned, “Stress can kill you, so you need to stay away from it.” That was a popular theory in the 1970s, but Maddi was skeptical. He’d already done studies indicating that stress could […]