
当面对“oh my god,你究竟在哪里?”诸如此类令人抓狂的事情时,青少年往往首先求助于“亲爱的日记”来缓解自己郁闷的心情。当对着日记本尽情倾诉完那些青春期的悸动,不安以及不被理解的苦闷后,心情的阴霾便会一扫而空。
日记对少男少女的理疗作用究竟有多大?科学家一直对此抱有深厚的兴趣。不过,最新的研究显示,青少年在博客上倾诉自己的心事会对缓解自己的心情更为有效。开博吧,为了自己的美好人生。
由以色列海法大学心理学教授Meyran Boniel-Nissim 和Azy Barak共同完成的这项研究发表于心理服务杂志上。他们发现与传统的私人日记相比,博客形式的网络社区上的留言、交流可以更有效地缓解博主的社会压力。
为了更好地理解青少年博主的心路历程,研究者对以色列的中学生进行随机调研,他们选择了161名(124名女孩,37名男孩,明显的性别倾斜)表现出不同程度的社交压力或焦虑的受试者。这些平均年龄只有15岁的博主说他们与朋友的交往中遇到了麻烦,或者根本不知道如何去交友。
在网络世界里,这些青少年被分为6组。前两组在博客中倾吐了自己社交中的困难,其中一组可以将帖子公开并与网友留言互动。中间的两组在博客上公开了自己受到打击的青春梦想,同样,其中一组可以与网友互动。以上四组的成员每周至少更新两次自己的博客。作为空白对照,剩下的两组成员只能在传统的私人日记中喁喁独言,寻找心灵慰藉,或者干脆发呆打发寂寞时光。
4名心理学家仔细阅读了所有的博客,并试图梳理出博主的复杂的社交状态和微妙的心理世界。在所有组中,心情得到最大改善的是那些公开了自己的心理秘密并与网友热情互动的博主。
有趣的是,博客评论者总是不遗余力地给予支持和鼓励。“最让我们大吃一惊的是,几乎所有的回复留言帖都是热情洋溢地给予积极的建设性意见。” Barak博士在EMAIL中如是写道。
虚拟世界也能如此温馨。“我决定写下自己生活中的挫折,这会帮助我获得心灵的安宁,”一位来自于Norfolk, Va的17岁的博主Royar Loflin说,她并没有参加此项研究。她的博客包罗了“一个南方预科生的生活”,他写下了时尚,书评,以及初年级时的学习压力。
“点击者写下了他们的留言,“我也经历过此类往事”或者“不要担心,阳光总在风雨后!”这太棒了,”她说,“读到这些,你就把一切不开心的事丢到了爪哇岛,相信未来一切都会好起来。”

The Therapeutic Value of Adolescents' Blogging About Social–Emotional Difficulties
Meyran Boniel-Nissim and Azy Barak
Research shows that writing a personal diary is a valuable therapeutic means for relieving emotional distress and promoting well-being, and that diary writing during adolescence helps in coping with developmental challenges. Current technologies and cultural trends make it possible and normative to publish personal diaries on the Internet through blogs—interactive, online forms of the traditional personal diary. We examined the therapeutic value of blogging for adolescents who experience social–emotional difficulties. The field experiment included randomly assigned adolescents, preassessed as having social–emotional difficulties, to 6 groups (26–28 participants in each): Four groups were assigned to blogging (writing about their difficulties or free writing; either open or closed to responses), a group assigned to writing a diary on personal computers, and a no-treatment control group. Participants in the 5 writing groups were instructed to post messages at least twice a week over 10 weeks. Outcome measures included scales of social–emotional difficulties and self-esteem, a social activities checklist, and textual analyses of participants' posts. Measurement took place at pre- and postintervention and at follow-up 2 months later. Results showed that participants maintaining a blog significantly improved on all measures. Participants writing about their difficulties in blogs open to responses gained the most. These results were consistent in the follow-up evaluation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)
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