研究人员称，在Facebook上表现真实更有益于心理健康

研究人员称，在Facebook上表现真实更有益于心理健康

One tension that social media users face is whether to present themselves in a way that's idealized or in a way that's authentic.

社交媒体用户面临的一个问题是，是用理想化的方式来展示自己，还是用真实的方式。

Exotic vacation pics. Shots of healthy meals. Flattering selfies.

异国情调的度假照片。健康饮食的照片。讨喜的自拍。

Whether you're on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok, many people make huge efforts to curate the best version of themselves online.

不管你是在Facebook、Instagram、Snapchat还是TikTok上，很多人都在努力在网上打造最好的自己。

But it might be better for your mental health not to craft an idealized view of yourself when using social media, according to a new study published Tuesday in Nature Communications.

不过，根据周二发表在《自然交流》上的一项新研究，在使用社交媒体时，不要刻意塑造一个理想化的自我形象，这可能对你的心理健康更好。

There are psychological benefits associated with being authentic when it comes to Facebook posts and likes, a team of US researchers at New York's Columbia Business School and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in Chicago found.

美国纽约哥伦比亚商学院和芝加哥西北大学凯洛格管理学院的一组研究人员发现，在Facebook上发帖和点赞时，表现真实有心理益处。

"Being prompted to post in an authentic way was associated with more positive mood and affect, and less negative mood within participants," the study said.

研究称:“被鼓励以一种真实的方式发帖，会让参与者有更积极的情绪和影响，并减少消极情绪。”

"Our findings suggest that all individuals regardless of personality traits could benefit from being authentic on social media."

“我们的研究结果表明，所有个体，不论其性格特征如何，在社交媒体上表现真实都会从中受益。”

To reach this conclusion, the researchers did two things.

为了得出这个结论，研究人员做了两件事。

First, they analyzed the data of 10,560 Facebook users who'd completed a life satisfaction and personality assessment from 2007 to 2012.

首先，他们分析了10560名Facebook用户的数据，这些用户在2007年至2012年间完成了生活满意度和个性评估。

The researchers compared these self-ratings with predictions of users' personality based on digital traces left on Facebook, such as likes and Facebook posts, to find out to what extent their Facebook represented authentic expressions of their personality.

研究人员将这些自我评价与基于用户在Facebook上留下的数字痕迹(比如点赞和Facebook帖子)对其个性的预测进行了比较，以找出他们的Facebook在多大程度上代表了他们个性的真实表达。

Those who expressed themselves in a more authentic way -- or at least presented themselves on Facebook in a way closer to how they viewed themselves -- also reported higher levels of life satisfaction, the research team found. The effect also appeared to be consistent across different personality types.

研究小组发现，那些以更真实的方式表达自己的人——或者至少在Facebook上以更贴近自己的方式展示自己的人——生活满意度也更高。在不同的个性类型中，这种效果似乎是一致的。

In the second part of the study, the researchers got 90 students to post in an authentic way on Facebook for a week and then in a "self-idealized" way for a week. The students' subjective well-being, the team found, was higher in the week when they were asked to post authentically.

在研究的第二部分，研究人员让90名学生以真实的方式在Facebook上发帖一周，然后以“自我理想化”的方式发帖一周。研究小组发现，当学生被要求发布真实的帖子时，他们的主观幸福感更高。

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"The link between authenticity and well-being in general has been well documented in prior research," said Erica Bailey, a doctoral student in management at Columbia Business School and author of the study.

研究报告的作者、哥伦比亚商学院管理学博士生艾丽卡·贝利说:“总体上，真实性和幸福感之间的联系已经在之前的研究中得到了很好的证明。”

"However, in the case of social media, the opposite direction is also highly likely, that is people who are more well-adjusted or happier are also probably more likely to post authentically," she said via email.

她通过电子邮件说：“然而，在社交媒体的情况下，也很有可能出现相反的情况，也就是说，那些适应能力更强或更快乐的人也更有可能真实地发帖。”

A good example of an inauthentic post, Bailey said, would be someone who is introverted posting about how excited they were to go out on the weekend.

贝利说，一个不真实帖子的好例子是，一个内向的人发帖说他们周末出去有多兴奋。

While the effects of using social media authentically on well-being were "robust" and "meaningful," they were small compared to other important predictors of well-being like income, health and relationships, the researchers said.

研究人员说，虽然使用社交媒体时表现真实对幸福感的影响是“强大的”和“有意义的”，但与收入、健康和人际关系等其他重要的幸福感预测指标相比，这些影响很小。