Can blogging make you happier? According to researchers in Taiwan, the answer is “Yes.”

寫博客能讓你更快樂嗎？根據臺灣研究人員的研究，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）利用一個由43項自述組成的調查，對596名年齡在16到22歲之間的在校大學生（女性占71%）進行了一次調查。在校大學生是有博客經驗的年輕人，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.

研究人員發現，博主更進一步的自我表露會導致更好的社會關系。這些社會關系包括很多方面，例如，更好地融入社會的感覺，這種感覺就是我們感覺到的與社會、朋友圈子、以及其他人之間的聯系方式；社會內部聯系的加強（我們那些非常重要、親密的社會關系）；社會外部聯系----加強了我們同日常社交網絡以外的人的聯系。

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，并從數據中發現，當這類社會關系通過寫博客而增加或是變得更緊密時，博主也會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.

該研究和之前有關個人寫作（但是，通常是指更私隱的寫作）的研究相符，那些研究發現，當人們通過寫作與他人分享自己最真實的感覺和情緒時，可能獲得更多的社會支持，并能改善社會關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，該研究對擴充知識和了解寫博客這一行為頗具價值。

（來源：網絡 實習生許雅寧 英語點津Jennifer編輯）