Dr. Danielle Molnar

The official twitter page of our Developmental Processes in Health and Well-Being Lab directed by Dr. Danielle Molnar at Brock University.

[Dr. Danielle Molnar @DPHWB_Lab]

Are you someone who demands perfection from yourself or others or know someone who is a perfectionist? If so, check out our new blog “The Young & The Perfectionistic” where we discuss our latest findings concerning perfectionism among young people. https://t.co/bJcgIzlMS4

[Gordon Flett @FlettGordon]

I'm biased but our new paper is a free must read for anyone needing to understand perfectionistic kids, but especially educators & parents. Find out what experienced teachers have learned @SRCDtweets
@NEAToday @ETFOeducators @osstf @WeAreTeachers @apa
https://t.co/AsTeWy79OX

[Dr. Danielle Molnar @DPHWB_Lab]

Teachers are using lots of strategies to help perfectionistic students, but many say these approaches only go so far.
Our findings point to a clear need for better support and resources for teachers addressing perfectionism in schools.
Open-access paper:
https://t.co/DgJLwB2Nhw

[JAMA @JAMA_current]

Med News: A major meta-analysis has found that digital media use, particularly social media, is consistently linked to worse youth mental health and development.

https://t.co/s9E2AF4wRm

[Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht]

Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine.

What went wrong?

In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms:

1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder.
2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology.
3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it.

The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress.

This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does.

Link to paper: https://t.co/ucoGyhEuAj

[OCUFA @OCUFA]

Demand for an Ontario university education has never been higher.

But per-student funding for Ontario’s universities is the lowest in the country.

Ontario universities need stable long-term funding now.

Read our briefing note: https://t.co/vdnbyfRtNS

[Dr. Danielle Molnar @DPHWB_Lab]

Not all perfectionism comes from wanting to be the best.

Sometimes it comes from learning how not to get hurt.

Our new study shows that growing up with adversity, contributes to the need to be perfect. Read more here: https://t.co/ZBNUa0iV2u

[Dr. Danielle Molnar @DPHWB_Lab]

📣📣📣NEW BLOG POST!!!

If you’ve ever felt exhausted trying to make the holidays “just right,” this one’s for you. This one is for Nana!

#HolidayReflections #LetItBeImperfect #SlowDownSeason #HolidayPresence #Perfectionism #FamilyStories

https://t.co/GrHS9HSOmO

[Dr. Danielle Molnar @DPHWB_Lab]

📣📣New Blog Post Alert!

In our latest blog post, we discuss how the Blue Jays’ mindset shift from chasing perfection to focusing on progress is fueling their success both on and off the field.

Check it out below!

https://t.co/Jwrb8bVRiC

[Dr. Danielle Molnar @DPHWB_Lab]

Our chapter, “They’re Kind of Losing It”: Young Perfectionists’ Mental Health Experiences During the COVID-19 Lockdown, is published in the new edited collection Surviving and Thriving: Promoting Health and Well-Being During and After COVID-19. https://t.co/hxzoxUJJp9

[YorkUHealth @YorkUHealth]

#YorkU Psychology professor Gordon Flett spoke with The New Yorker about the real harm of perfectionism: “the need to seem perfect is much bigger now than when we started this research.” | #YUResearch @FlettGordon @NewYorker https://t.co/KzNhkKn9Uv

[Dr. Danielle Molnar @DPHWB_Lab]

📣 New Blog Post 🚨
The #LeafsNation Biggest Problem Isn’t Talent, It’s a Culture of #Perfectionism

📲 Read now at https://t.co/wH6nGPPK28

[Brock University Lifespan Research Institute @Brock_LDRI]

💡Get involved at: https://t.co/ZNQxdJIOyh

[Gordon Flett @FlettGordon]

Impressive research by Danielle Molnar & colleagues on the challenging peer relationships of adolescents who need to seem perfect. One solution is essentially mattering: "...show them that they’re valued for who they are, not just for what they accomplish"
https://t.co/4SFbVlZ78u

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

CONNOR MCDAVID THE GOLDEN GOAL

CANADA WINS THE #4Nations

[Dr Tracy Donachie, CPsychol, SFHEA, SEPiT @tdona005]

Excited to share our new publication in the Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology: Exploring How Soccer Players With Perfectionism Navigate Challenges in Talent Pathways. https://t.co/vC0KLp8aX7 @Human_Kinetics @MalHowSH @KA_Tamminen and Professor Andy Hill @UniofNewcastle

[St. Catharines @St_Catharines]

📢 @environmentca winter weather travel advisory in effect:
❄️ Snow begins late afternoon with up to 10 cm possible and will impact evening commute
🌧️ Expected to transition to freezing rain late this evening. A freezing rain warning also in effect.
ℹ️ https://t.co/b860xZIyMT

[Dr. Danielle Molnar @DPHWB_Lab]

@BrockUniversity any updates regarding the upcoming winter storm?

[McMaster University @McMasterU]

@McMasterEng @McMasterScience @mcmasterhum @McMasterSocSci @machealthsci @DeGrooteBiz @MacSSC @maclibraries @McMasterSports Update: McMaster is closing as of 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 12 because of the winter storm. Evening classes, labs, studios, tests and events — in person and virtual — are cancelled. Learn more: https://t.co/D9DCQktpVA

[Brock Social Science @BrockUFOSS]

The #BrockU community is mourning the loss of Professor Emeritus Stanley Sadava, whose "infectious enthusiasm for psychology" inspired both faculty and students over the span of his 40-year career at @BrockUniversity.
https://t.co/hat7vLScHm

[Brock University Lifespan Research Institute @Brock_LDRI]

Wanting to get involved in research at Brock University? You can with the Lifespan Insititute 🏫! Check out our website to see the active studies💡: https://t.co/Yz6CnCVhDy

[CHCH News @CHCHNews]

Nearly 125 support staff at Mohawk College have been let go as the post-secondary school grapples with a projected $50-million deficit.
https://t.co/m8Nj2I0ixk