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Scouts and Guides Provide 'Mental Health Boost for Life'

posted by janrinok on Saturday November 12 2016, @05:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the it-was-pretty-good-then-too dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

People who were in the scouts or guides in childhood have better mental health in later life, a study suggests.

Analysis of a study of 10,000 people found ex-members were 15% less likely than other adults to suffer anxiety or mood disorders at the age of 50.

Researchers believe it could be the lessons in resilience and resolve that such organisations offer that has a lasting positive impact.

The researchers were from Edinburgh and Glasgow universities.

They looked at data from a lifelong study of almost 10,000 people from across the UK who were born in November 1958, known as the National Child Development Study.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Saturday November 12 2016, @06:02PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday November 12 2016, @06:02PM (#426089) Journal

    Maybe there is no causal link, but the correlation is good enough to provide some guidance on how to live your life! As for myself, I am right now going to try to have better mental health so that I could have been a Scout or a Guide earlier in my life. You see, causation only goes one way, but correlation is a two-way street!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 12 2016, @09:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 12 2016, @09:01PM (#426124)

    No, you are wrong.

    I wont bother explaining because this is the internet and its pointless...

    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday November 12 2016, @09:22PM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday November 12 2016, @09:22PM (#426131) Journal

      There is a 99.947% record of AC's being wrong when they assert a non-AC is wrong, so I can only infer that this statistic that you are wrong in your assertion that I are wrong. Do not blame the internets when it is you being AC that is causing your wrongness. Besides, Prof. Hawking agrees.