{"id":953,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/16\/arts-and-crafts-improve-mental-health-in-the-same-way-that-a-job-does\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","slug":"arts-and-crafts-improve-mental-health-in-the-same-way-that-a-job-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/arts-and-crafts-improve-mental-health-in-the-same-way-that-a-job-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts and crafts improve mental health in the same way that a job does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-08-16 15:09:20<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Arts and crafts are just as good at improving mental health as having a job.<BR><br \/>\nScientists have found that completing creative activities enhances a person&#8217;s sense that living is worthwhile as well as their overall happiness and satisfaction.<BR><br \/>\nExperts analysed a sample of over 7,000 participants in the annual Taking Part survey conducted by the UK Government&#8217;s Department for Culture, Media and Sport and those who had taken part in arts and crafts activities over the past year reported higher levels of happiness and satisfaction.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Helen Keyes, lead author of the study at Anglia Ruskin University, said: &#8220;Crafting and other artistic activities showed a meaningful effect in predicting people&#8217;s sense that their life is worthwhile.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Indeed, the impact of crafting was bigger than the impact of being in employment.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Not only does crafting give us a sense of achievement, it is also a meaningful route to self-expression. This is not always the case with employment.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-08-16 15:09:20 Arts and crafts are just as good at improving mental health as having a job. Scientists have found that completing creative activities enhances a person&#8217;s sense that living&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}