ahmedabad how does a persons daily social media usage affect hisher cognitive behaviour can the family background being raised in a joint or a nuclear family affect the way the person handles stress whats going on in someones mind at the time of speeding their vehicle these were some of the questions the experts tried to answer through their research at a convention organized at ahmedabad university the university hosted the 32nd annual convention of the national academy of psychologists nap that concluded on sunday over 500 delegates from 112 educational institutes participated in the event this years theme was building a resilience and responsible worldemerging trends in psychology the event also featured 18 lectures from invited speakers from across the world in one of the presentations the researchers claimed that those with high to very high daily usage of social media over four hours displayed an increase in anxiety and depression poor sleep quality and a decrease in subjective wellbeing likewise a study by researchers from two iits tasked individuals with remembering auditory and visual inputs while they were asked to perform lane change on a simulator the researchers claimed that the load on the working or temporary memory resulted in increased vehicle speed indicating that while the drivers were thinking the speed increased invariably some of the themes in the oral presentation included digital technology ai and cyber psychology social psychology developmental psychology workplace and diversity media psychology gender issues health equity and terrorism among others a study on the relationship between perfectionism and suicidal thoughts concluded perfectionism and specifically the domains concerning mistakes parental expectations and parental criticism were positively related to negative suicidal ideation a linear regression model constituted by these variables can significantly predict negative suicidal ideation likewise another study on abortion and its mental health implications underlined medical issues cultural reasons marital status and professional demands as areas of concern