{"id":283,"date":"2019-09-23T07:51:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2019-09-23T07:51:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T14:51:27","slug":"what-matters-is-whether-you-matter-to-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/23\/what-matters-is-whether-you-matter-to-others\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What Matters is Whether You Matter to Others&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thought this was interesting:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/living-single\/200903\/what-matters-is-whether-you-matter-others\">https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/living-single\/200903\/what-matters-is-whether-you-matter-others<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, there was a study done with 1500 Canadians to see whether a person feeling like they &#8220;mattered&#8221; correlated with having support from various groups of ppl (Friends, Family, Co-Workers, Spouse), and if so then how important was the support from each group to that feeling. There was also apparently a part of the study where the feeling of mattering was correlated to whether a person was depressed or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some takeaways that I got based on the article (since I haven&#8217;t actually reviewed the study itself!):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Not suprisingly, having support from those groups did correlate with the feeling of mattering, across the board<\/li><li>Men&#8217;s feeling of mattering relied quite a bit more on support from other people than for women<\/li><li>For both men and women, having support from FRIENDS appeared to be a <strong>lot <\/strong>more important to &#8220;mattering&#8221; than having support from one&#8217;s SPOUSE! And again, this was much more pronounced for men.<\/li><li>In fact, for women, having support from one&#8217;s spouse, family, or co-workers seemed equally important, with friends&#8217; support much more important than all of those.<\/li><li>As for whether the feeling of mattering could be related to a lower likelihood of depression, it looked like this was directly true for women, BUT, for men you also had to include not just whether they thought they mattered, but also &#8220;their feelings of mastery,&#8221; i.e. whether their actions were consequential\/made a difference.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought this was interesting:https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/living-single\/200903\/what-matters-is-whether-you-matter-others Basically, there was a study done with 1500 Canadians to see whether a person feeling like they &#8220;mattered&#8221; correlated with having support from various groups of ppl (Friends, Family, Co-Workers, Spouse), and if so then how important was the support from each group to that feeling. There was also apparently a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,36,37,38],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-articles","tag-depression","tag-friendship","tag-marriage","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrmd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}