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If you read the article you'll see they did a prospective trial where they assigned either wait-list or volunteering to two groups. This wasn't just looking at
by cpncrunch 6y ago
If you read the article you'll see they did a prospective trial where they assigned either wait-list or volunteering to two groups. This wasn't just looking at correlations between volunteering and health.
- mewpmewp2 6y agoI did read the article. The second study also raises many questions. What is meant by wait-listing? Does it mean their future is unclear and for this reason could their stress levels be higher? Was maybe tutoring itself the activity that worked well not the kindness part in particular? But anyway intuitively I believe volunteering and kindness do have health benefits, definitely reduces stress, feelings of guilt and just in general makes you feel better about yourself. So from this mental state there might be health benefits. And while chemical levels differed it is still unclear what health effects there were. Being "linked" doesn't say much.