What Does Your Facebook Profile Say About Your Psychological Health?
Can Facebook users’ activity on the social network provide windows into their souls? We won’t go that far, but a University of Missouri study did find that such activity could be used as indicators about psychological health.
Can Facebook users’ activity on the social network provide windows into their souls? We won’t go that far, but a University of Missouri study did find that such activity could be used as indicators about psychological health.
Elizabeth Martin, a doctoral student in MU’s psychological science department in its College of Arts and Sciences, said psychologists and therapists could eventually turn to profiles on Facebook and other social networks as tools to aid their work, adding:
Therapists could possibly use social media activity to create a more complete clinical picture of a patient.
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