SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that people who are more friendly to their pets are less likely to suffer from depression. A joint research team from Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health and the College of Veterinary Medicine announced on Saturday the results of a survey conducted [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that solitary seniors not engaging in any social activity are four times more likely to suffer from depression than those who do. A joint research team from Asan Medical Center and the Pyeongchang Public Health Center conducted a study of 408 senior citizens who [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has found that young South Koreans feel depressed, while older people are more likely to feel anxiety. Koo Hye-ran, a research professor at Seoul National University, analyzed the emotions of South Koreans through the framework of Baysian Network Analysis in her recently published paper, “A Nation [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ perception of “well-being” improved slightly last year, but things were different for those in their 50s and 60s. Those excluded from the labor market and the community were more depressed than other age groups, and their satisfaction with life itself and income levels was also lower. As [...]
DAEJEON, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — People living in cities with vast urban forests are 18.7 percent less likely to suffer from depression than those living in a cities with fewer green spaces. According to the National Institute of Forest Science (NIFoS) on Wednesday, Prof. Lee Jong-tae of Korea University evaluated 651,128 adults living in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team led by Prof. Cho Chang-soo and Prof. Han Kyu-man from Korea University College of Medicine announced on Monday that it had classified 1,003 people out of 9,217 married couples who had no symptoms of depression at the time of the survey but showed signs of depression [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has found that so-called emotional laborers in the service and sales sectors showed an increased risk of depression. The study was conducted by a research team at Korea University based on a database of 2,055 individuals older than 19 years of age working in service and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that South Korean men are twice as likely to suffer from depression after retirement compared to women. The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) revealed on Wednesday how retirement can affect the psychological health of individuals. The study showed that the CES-D, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study conducted by South Korean researchers has revealed that visceral fat increases the risk of depression among women. Prof. Cho Sung-jun and his team at Seoul National University Hospital studied the relationship between visceral fat and depression by looking into 7,238 patients who received treatment at the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has revealed that job seekers and employed workers whose jobs require emotional labor (such as service and sales jobs) are more likely to have higher levels of worry and depression compared to workers in other categories. The report published by Statistics Korea yesterday via its periodical [...]