Older South Koreans with cognitive impairment had higher depression scores when their care came mainly from public caregivers or a mixed group of helpers rather than their adult children. A 2026 analysis of national survey data on 537 adults aged 65 and older found the link after adjusting for health, daily function and income.1 Research …
Stress, low support, loneliness and depression during pregnancy were the factors most strongly linked to postpartum depression in a 2026 survey of 975 mothers from German-speaking countries. Medical factors such as cesarean delivery and gestational diabetes showed no significant link.1 Research Highlights Life stress after birth stood out: feeling stressed by one’s general life situation …
Financial burden was the carer problem that most lowered quality of life when 771 Australian adults weighed caregiving situations against years of life. Their choices built the first scoring system for COCOON, a new quality-of-life measure for people caring for someone with dementia.1 Research Highlights Money strain counted most: “always” feeling a financial burden took …
In a 2026 interview study involving 6 adults with long-term chronic pain in Quebec, participants said their deepest suffering came less from how much they hurt than from what pain did to their social lives: loneliness, judgment and the strain of trying to look normal.1 Research Highlights Social losses, not pain intensity, defined suffering: all …
University students who used an AI chatbot for 12 weeks ended with anxiety scores about 2 points lower than students in weekly group therapy, in a randomized trial of 977 students in Israel.1 The gap was still there 3 months later. But it came less from the chatbot users improving a lot than from anxiety …
A longitudinal MIDUS analysis involving 840 adults found that loneliness scores higher than a person's objective social-isolation score were linked to later cognitive impairment mainly through chronic disease burden, while the allostatic-load pathway was weaker than the chronic-disease pathway and not statistically confirmed for the main cognitive outcomes.1 Research Highlights Loneliness was separated from isolation: …
The “men have shallower friendships” story is too blunt. In a 2026 Sex Roles analysis of 1,899 young adults, the familiar gender friendship gap was largely driven by one group: white men reported the lowest closeness to best friends, while Black men, Latino men, and women across ethnoracial groups looked much more similar after adjustment.1 …