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

写博客能让你更快乐吗？根据台湾研究人员的研究，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.

研究人员（Ko & Kuo, 2009）利用一个由43项自述组成的调查，对596名年龄在16到22岁之间的在校大学生（女性占71%）进行了一次调查。在校大学生是有博客经验的年轻人，特别是他们抱着记私人日记的目的写博客。

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.

研究人员发现，博主更进一步的自我表露会导致更好的社会关系。这些社会关系包括很多方面，例如，更好地融入社会的感觉，这种感觉就是我们感觉到的与社会、朋友圈子、以及其他人之间的联系方式；社会内部联系的加强（我们那些非常重要、亲密的社会关系）；社会外部联系----加强了我们同日常社交网络以外的人的联系。

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.

研究人员还做出假设，并从数据中发现，当这类社会关系通过写博客而增加或是变得更紧密时，博主也会感觉更满意或是更快乐。

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.

该研究和之前有关个人写作（但是，通常是指更私隐的写作）的研究相符，那些研究发现，当人们通过写作与他人分享自己最真实的感觉和情绪时，可能获得更多的社会支持，并能改善社会关系以及自身的归属感。目前尚未有大量的研究涉及写博客，所以，该研究对扩充知识和了解写博客这一行为颇具价值。

（来源：网络 实习生许雅宁 英语点津Jennifer编辑）