{"id":5743,"date":"2020-05-25T18:15:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T08:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=5743"},"modified":"2020-05-25T18:15:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T08:15:21","slug":"sci-fi-and-fantasy-build-mental-resiliency-in-young-readers-jstor-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/25\/sci-fi-and-fantasy-build-mental-resiliency-in-young-readers-jstor-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi and Fantasy Build Mental Resiliency in Young Readers | JSTOR Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Science fiction offers readers a way to rethink social dilemmas. Young people who are \u201chooked\u201d on watching fantasy or reading science fiction may be on to something. Contrary to a common misperception that reading this genre is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/apr\/18\/it-drives-writers-mad-why-are-authors-still-sniffy-about-sci-fi\">an unworthy practice<\/a>, reading science fiction and fantasy may <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/coronavirus\/how-teenagers-can-protect-their-mental-health-during-coronavirus-covid-19\">help young people cope<\/a>, especially with the stress and anxiety of living through the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/science-fiction-builds-mental-resiliency-young-readers\/\">Sci-Fi and Fantasy Build Mental Resiliency in Young Readers | JSTOR Daily<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction offers readers a way to rethink social dilemmas. Young people who are \u201chooked\u201d on watching fantasy or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445,456,450],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-mntlhlth","category-psych"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5744,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions\/5744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}