Can blogging make you happier? According to researchers in Taiwan, the answer is “Yes.”
寫博客能讓你更快樂嗎？根據(jù)臺(tái)灣研究人員的研究，答案是“肯定的。”
The researchers (Ko & Kuo, 2009) administered a 43-item self-report survey to 596 college students who were mostly between ages 16 and 22 and female (71 percent). The college students were young adults who had blogging experience, and specifically with blogging for the purpose of keeping a personal journal.
研究人員（Ko & Kuo, 2009）利用一個(gè)由43項(xiàng)自述組成的調(diào)查，對(duì)596名年齡在16到22歲之間的在校大學(xué)生（女性占71%）進(jìn)行了一次調(diào)查。在校大學(xué)生是有博客經(jīng)驗(yàn)的年輕人，特別是他們抱著記私人日記的目的寫博客。
The researchers found support for deeper self-disclosure from bloggers resulting in a range of better social connections. These included things such as a sense of greater social integration, which is how connected we feel to society and our own community of friends and others; an increase in social bonding (our tightly knit, intimate relationships); and social bridging — increasing our connectedness with people who might be from outside of our typical social network.
研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，博主更進(jìn)一步的自我表露會(huì)導(dǎo)致更好的社會(huì)關(guān)系。這些社會(huì)關(guān)系包括很多方面，例如，更好地融入社會(huì)的感覺，這種感覺就是我們感覺到的與社會(huì)、朋友圈子、以及其他人之間的聯(lián)系方式；社會(huì)內(nèi)部聯(lián)系的加強(qiáng)（我們那些非常重要、親密的社會(huì)關(guān)系）；社會(huì)外部聯(lián)系----加強(qiáng)了我們同日常社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)以外的人的聯(lián)系。
They also hypothesized and found support from their data that when these kinds of social connections increase or grow deeper through blogging, a person will also feel a greater subjective sense of well-being or happiness.
研究人員還做出假設(shè)，并從數(shù)據(jù)中發(fā)現(xiàn)，當(dāng)這類社會(huì)關(guān)系通過(guò)寫博客而增加或是變得更緊密時(shí)，博主也會(huì)感覺更滿意或是更快樂。
This research is consistent with prior research on personal writing (usually more privately, though) that finds that when people share their innermost thoughts of their moods or feelings with others through writing, they may gain greater social support and improve their social relationships and feelings of connectedness. There isn’t a whole lot of research into blogging, so this study is a valuable contribution to our knowledge and understanding of this behavior.
該研究和之前有關(guān)個(gè)人寫作（但是，通常是指更私隱的寫作）的研究相符，那些研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，當(dāng)人們通過(guò)寫作與他人分享自己最真實(shí)的感覺和情緒時(shí)，可能獲得更多的社會(huì)支持，并能改善社會(huì)關(guān)系以及自身的歸屬感。目前尚未有大量的研究涉及寫博客，所以，該研究對(duì)擴(kuò)充知識(shí)和了解寫博客這一行為頗具價(jià)值。
（來(lái)源：網(wǎng)絡(luò) 實(shí)習(xí)生許雅寧 英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津Jennifer編輯）
