덴마크 “행복 연구소”(Happiness Research Institute)
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덴마크의 한 연구에 따르면, 일주일간 소셜 네트워크 서비스를 사용하지 않으면, 계속 사용하는 사람들보다 훨씬 행복감을 느낀다고 한다. “행복 연구소”(Happiness Research Institute)는 1000여명의 덴마크인을 두 그룹으로 나눠, 대조팀은 계속해 가장 광범위한 소셜 네트워크 서비스 “페이스북”을 사용하도록 하고, 실험팀은 사용하지 못하게 했다. 일주일 후, 실험팀 사람들은 생활에 더 만족감을 느꼈는 데, 그 중 88%는 자신은 “행복하다”고 말한 데 반해, 대조팀의 이 비례는 81%였다.
“페이스북”을 사용하지 않은 사람들은 84%가 자신의 생활을 마음에 들어해, “페이스북”을 계속 사용하는 사람들보다 9%포인트 높았다. 실험팀 중 12%만 생활에 만족하지 않은 데 반해, 대조팀의 이 비례는 20%였다. 실험이 끝난 후, “페이스북”을 잠시 사용하지 않은 사람들은 개인 사교 생활이 더 풍부하게 되어, 보다 쉽게 주의력을 집중할 수 있다고 했다. 하지만 대조팀 사람들은 이런 변화를 느끼지 못했다. 이 번 연구 결과를 보면, 또 “페이스북” 사용자들은 비 사용자들보다 기쁘지 않은 확률이 39% 높았다. 이런 변화의 원인에 대해, 보고서 저자는 이렇게 적고 있다. “불행한 것은, 우리는 다른 사람에게 관심이 많을 뿐, 자신이 실지 무엇이 필요한가에 중시를 돌리지 않는 경향이 있다는 것이다.” [글/신화사 기자 후뤄위(胡若愚), 번역/신화망 한국어판] [신화사 베이징 11월 13일] |
The study found that people who took a Facebook break felt happier and were less sad
and lonely. Photo: Iris/Scanpix
The Copenhagen-based Happiness Research Institute has a simple formula for increasing your happiness, social activity and concentration, but it might not be something you’re willing to do.
Checking Facebook gives us instant gratification in the form of new likes and friend requests and provides a virtual one-stop shop for keeping up with the people we care about and the news we’re interested in. But does it also make us unhappy?
A new study from the Happiness Research Institute suggests that it might.
The institute conducted an experiment on 1,095 people in Denmark, asking half of them to refrain from using Facebook for one week. The participants were asked to evaluate their life satisfaction on a scale of one to ten both before and after the one-week experiment and the researchers found “a significantly higher level of life satisfaction” amongst those who did not visit the social media behemoth.
The control group, which continued to use Facebook as normal during the week, gave an average 7.67 ranking to their life satisfaction before the experiment. At by week's end, that had barely changed to 7.75. The other group, however, saw life satisfaction shoot up from 7.56 to 8.12 after their Facebook-free week.
Not only did they feel happier with their lives, they also reported an increase in real-world social activity and were significantly less angry and lonely than the Facebook users.
Happiness Research Institute CEO Meik Wiking said that the experiment’s results were largely down to people’s tendency to compare themselves to others. And in the world of Facebook, where 61 percent of the experiment participants said they prefer to post their "good sides" to the site and 69 percent prefer to post photos of the “great things” in their lives, comparisons to others can be misleading.
“Facebook distorts our perception of reality and of what other people’s lives really look like. We take in to account how we’re doing in life through comparisons to everyone else, and since most people only post positive things on Facebook, that gives us a very biassed perception of reality,” Wiking told The Local.
Because people are more likely to post photos from their latest holidays than a typical Monday at the office, or to write more status updates about their children’s achievements than their unwillingness to eat their vegetables, Facebook quickly becomes a false world filled with only life’s brighter sides.
“If we are constantly exposed to great news, we risk evaluating our own lives as less good,” Wiking said.
The institute likens Facebook to “a non-stop great news channel” and a “constant flow of edited lives” that paint false pictures.
Wiking said that although he was surprised by the experiment’s results, he would have liked to have seen the break last longer than one week, as that may not be a long enough time to cancel out the distortion that has already happened.
“You would think that over time, the effect would be larger. But on the other hand, if you do log off Facebook for a longer period of time, that might enhance one’s sense of isolation. Facebook is an infrastructure for social events so if you completely log out, you may miss out on some of these social activities,” he said.
Despite the study showing that taking a break from Facebook increases happiness, social activity and concentration levels, Wiking acknowledged that most people will continue to use the social media. To put it another way, we will willingly carry on with an activity that does’t make us happy. Why people continue negative behaviours is conundrum that researchers have been “trying to crack for decades”, he said.
http://www.thelocal.dk/20151109/dropping-facebook-will-make-you-happy-danish-study
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