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According to a new study by Israel researchers from University of Haifa, posting blogs to express
feelings and emotions is therapeutic for children aged 13-17. Psychology professors Meyran
Boniel-Nissim and Azy Barak have found that a teenager writing a publicly-viewed blog on the Internet
is more effective for relieving stress rather than keeping a private diary. The study, published in the
journal Psychological Services, supports that expressing oneself through writing can be therapeutic.
To conduct the research, Boniel-Nissim and Barak randomly selected Israeli high school students
who displayed a certain degree of stress. The teenagers were then divided into six groups. Two groups
were asked to post blogs twice a week about their social difficulties, but only one of them was asked
to open the blogs for comments. The next set of groups were also asked to blog twice a week to post
about whatever was going on in their mind, again with one group allowing comments. The two control
groups were asked to keep an old-fashioned private diary.
The researchers then collected the blog posts and diaries to discuss the adolescents' emotional and
social position. From the research, they saw that the greatest improvement in mood was with the
bloggers who wrote about their personal troubles and allowed people to interact with their posts. The
research also noted that the comments were mostly positive and constructive. Boniel-Nissim and Barak
said that the commentators' interactions helped the bloggers while they were distressed. The conclusive
research noted that expressing yourself on the Internet not only let others know what was personally
going on with you, but also helped you figure out some things about yourself too.
1. The underlined word "therapeutic" in Paragraph 1 can be best explained as " ____ ".
A. attractive to teens
B. addictive for children
C. making people feel calm and relaxed
D. able to be easily hurt
2.___________were selected for the research.
A. Those who blogged regularly.
B. Those who suffered from stress.
C. Those who had never blogged before.
D. Those who had poor social skills.
3. The research shows that teens benefit most when ____ .
A. they blog and allow comments
B. they discuss their study on the blog
C. they keep a traditional diary
D. they comment on someone else's blog
4.We can infer from the last paragraph that blogging _________.
A. should not always be opened to comments
B. is most useful in improving one's mood
C. is not an effective way to express one's feelings
D. can help students see their problems better
