Blogging is usually never involved in the same sentence as group therapy, but recent evidence in two recent studies has found a link between both of them.
The studies was carried out by Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne Australia and research was conducted by James Baker and Professor Susan Moore.
Their finding for the studies showed that bloggers compared to non-bloggers feel more connected to others within their social networks, and they also share more connections with like minded people.
This sounded to me that it had many of the same undertones of group therapy in sharing personal problems with like minded people that help support each other through positive reinforcement.
The study was conducted by personally messaging MySpace users and directing them to an online questionnaire.
Later, after they tallied all the results and consalidated their findings they published them in the journal CyberPsychology and Behaviour. ABC broke the news to the rest of the world with this article.
3 comments:
That makes sense that they feel more connected but the sad thing is that all they do is sit at home on the internet interacting with people they will never meet. There may be similarities between group therapy and blogging but sitting at home on your computer is not going to be very theraputic
While I wouldn't recommend blogging all day long online, this could be pretty helpful to people. For instance, sitting down to blog when a situation rubs someone the wrong way and they need to get it out. It's way better than fighting everyone that they come into contact with that's for sure. So, maybe not group therapy, but personal therapy for one's own sanity.
I see how this could be helpful for some people, but at the same time I see how it might not be. Blogging is a way for them to get things out, but all they will be doing is sitting online all day long. I think it would be a better source of your own therapy, but not so much group.
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