“DEAR diary. Worrying news today. I read in a magazine that people who keep diaries are more likely to suffer from headaches, sleeplessness, digestive problems and even social dysfunction…”
That is the conclusion of a study by UK researchers Elaine Duncan of the Glasgow Caledonian University and David Sheffield of Staffordshire University. They compared 94 undergraduates who were regular diarists with 41 non-diarists. The volunteers filled in standard questionnaires about their health.
“We expected diary-keepers to have some benefit, or be the same, but they were the worst off,” says Duncan, who presented the findings to a British Psychological Society meeting in Edinburgh this week. “You…
