Why Self Image Suffers Among Seniors

Reference:
Lee Dye (2010, April 7). Why Self Image Suffers Among Seniors
Retrieved April 16, 2010, from
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/image-suffers seniors/story?id=10301708&page

Summary:
A new broad study illustrates that self-esteem changing always with the human lifespan. It surveys the number of 3,617 Americans over a 16-year period from 1986 to 2002, and that survey involves all of the factors that can affect our health and our financial prosperity by testing the effects of gender, ethnic, education, income, employment status, social support and so on. Many of factors can affect self-esteem, but only income and heath are able to explain the decrease of people in old age. The new study also found several factors such as women always had lower self-esteem than man before they are 80 years old, self-esteem of white as similar as black before they are 60 years old except when they at age 25 , and education is important in maintaining self-self. These factors lead to self-esteem line shown as a trajectory. If someone has higher self-esteem, he would have a better body, less criminal behavior, lower levels of depression and more success than other people with lower self-esteem. Although many factors related to self-esteem, only health and poor income play a major role in old age.

Reaction:
Self-esteem is your opinion about yourself, it refers to individual value. People who have good opinions about themselves that means they have a high self-esteem. Elder people would transfer the focus of life from work to families after they retirement, they maybe feel a little depression because they cannot show their own value any more in the society .This situation always take a few negative effects and hurt the elder self-esteem.
Meanwhile, love, health and income become more important thing than the others for elder. Love can reduce elders’ formless mentality and make them feel they are also important in status of their families. Health can keep elder have a good mood and enough abilities and confidence to do something that they like, and income can make elder feel they are still independence instead of depend on their children, so they will give themselves a good opinion.

Vocabulary:
Self-esteem：respect for yourself
Trajectory：the curved path an object follows after it is thrown or shot into the air
Maintain：to continue to have; kept in existence, or not allow becoming less
Longitude ：the position to the east or west of an imaginary circle around the earth that goes through the North Pole, the South Pole, and Greenwich, England
Mastery：complete control
Diminish：to reduce or be reduced in size or importance
Legacy：A legacy is also money or property left to a person by
Retirement：the point at which someone stops working
Vulnerable：able to be easily hurt, influenced, or attacked

Jealousy Really Can Blind You, Study Finds

Jealousy Really Can Blind You, Study Finds

Reference:
Bryner Jeanna (2010, April 15). Jealousy Really Can Blind You, Study Finds. Live Science Managing Editor，Retrieved April 26, 2010, from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36567772/ns/health-behavior/

Summary:
New research suggests that jealousy can actually lead people to miss the right thing from their eyes. A new study, which did by Steven Most of the Department of Psychology at the University of Delaware, can prove this phenomenon. In this experiment, the researchers selected 25 couples to take the test; each of people has a screen next to them. All of female were asked to pick some target pictures from a series of quickly play pictures, and all the target pictures are landscapes. There are some very unpleasant pictures played during the playing process, which can interfere women’s feeling. At the same time, each male also has a screen with playing landscape; the researchers asked them to give scores to landscape and the researchers make them to see some photos of single women at the middle of text process and asked them to give "attraction" points to these women. Then the researchers asked women participants feeling of anxiety when their partners assessing other women’s charm. The results showed that female who was jealousy with the heightened jealousy can single out the number of target pictures were less than the female with a little jealousy.

Reaction:
Jealousy is an emotion and typically refers to the negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety. It often consists of a combination of emotions such as anger, sadness and disgust. Jealousy just likes a devil, it can lead people to do something terrible or even destroy something beautiful, while, it is a commonly psychological phenomenon, and everybody has jealousy emotion in their hearts, especially girl, because girls like more beautiful things than boys, they always pay more attention to their appearance, beautiful cloth, decorations and so on and they want to own all of pretty things that the like, if they don’t have but their friends have it, jealousy may be caused. So jealousy always joined with the comparison, and it can break the relationship easily. I think people should keep a balanceable mind-set, because where there is no comparison, no jealousy.

Vocabulary:
Gruesome: extremely unpleasant and shocking
Heterosexual: opposite sex
Graphic: producing very clear and detailed mental images
Preoccupied: the thing you think about most
Distraction: entertainment
Manipulation: to control something by using the hands
Prioritize: to arrange in order of importance so that you can deal with the most important things before the others
Tough: not easily broken, weakened, or defeated; strong
Stimulus: something that causes growth, activity, or reaction
Prone: likely to do, get, or suffer from something