A new UBC and NYU Shanghai research study has found self-affirming written passwords - such as ’MusicCalmsMeDown@123’-- can offer a boost to one’s mental health.
Arts & Humanities. A new UBC and NYU Shanghai research study has found self-affirming written passwords - such as 'MusicCalmsMeDown@123'- can offer a boost to one's mental health. Erik Rolfsen The characters you type out over and over again into your digital devices may impact your mental health more than you might expect. A new UBC and NYU Shanghai research study has found self-affirming written passwords - such as "MusicCalmsMeDown@123"- can offer a boost to one's mental health. The research published in Internet Interventions focused on how such log-in codes impacted the well-being of first-year sexual minority undergraduates at both UBC and NYU Shanghai in coping with sexual orientation microaggressions, including homophobic name-calling, during the first six weeks of university. "We were thinking, with self-affirmation passwords, people can be reminded of what's important to them whenever they log in to their laptops or computers," says lead author Dr. Gu Li ( he/him ), assistant professor of psychology at NYU Shanghai, who first began the study in 2019 while at UBC. In this way, a password could be used as a timely "booster" for a writing-based intervention, explains Dr. Li, and help mitigate a stressful situation and subsequent decrease in psychological well-being.
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