43.刷社交媒体容易抑郁？先别妖魔化

第43期 刷社交媒体真的容易抑郁吗

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①The team that conducted the study asked about 6,600 US teenagers, aged between 12 to 15, to report how much time a day they spent on social media, as well as whether they had any mental health problems.

进行这项研究的团队询问了约6,600名年龄在12至15岁之间的美国青少年，他们报告他们每天花在社交媒体上的时间，以及他们是否有任何心理健康问题。

②The results show that three hours of social media correlated with higher rates of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, aggression, and antisocial behavior. 研究人员发现，每天花3小时在社交媒体上与较高的精神健康问题发生率有关。，包括抑郁，焦虑，攻击性和反社会行为。

③Maybe addressing rumors that social media was "causing" health problems, the researchers clarified that they only found correlations and it should not be mistaken for a necessarily causal relationship. 也许解决社交媒体“引起”健康问题的谣言，研究人员澄清说，他们只发现相关性，不应该误解为必然的因果关系。

④A panicky user even commented: "Wow! I am at its late stage."

一个恐慌的用户甚至评论说：'哇！我现在处于晚期阶段。

Caijing.com organized an online poll, in which 18,000 of the 43,000 respondents said they were constantly on social media when awake. Another 18,000 said they would feel worse without social media.财经网组织了一项在线调查，其中43,000名受访者中有18,000人表示他们在醒着时一直在社交媒体上。另有18,000人表示如果没有社交媒体，他们会感觉更糟。

⑤Zhou Xuhui, head and a leading expert at curbing network addiction at the Brain Hospital in Hunan province, said the original report had already stressed there was no confirmed causal relationship between spending too much time on social media and mental problems and this should not be misread.

而湖南省脑(nǎo)科医院网络成瘾负责人周旭辉表示，原始报告已经强调，在社交媒体上花费太多时间与心理问题之间没有确定的因果关系，这不应该被误读。

⑥"Generally speaking, people with mental health problems might prefer to leave their social environments and turn to the virtual world instead," she said. "And if they stay there too long, these people might have problems dealing with relationships in the real life. However, at least for now we cannot say it is social media that is causing mental problems."

“一般来说，有精神健康问题的人可能更愿意离开他们的社交环境而转向虚拟世界，”她说。 “如果他们呆在那里太久，这些人可能在处理现实生活中的关系方面遇到问题。但是，至少现在我们不能说是导致心理问题的是社交媒体。 。

Zhou Jian, a senior doctor who handles depression cases at the hospital, agrees. "Maybe some of the teenagers surveyed already have mental problems, so they turn to the virtual world," she said.

在医院处理抑郁症病例的高级医生周健对此表示赞同。 “也许一些接受调查的青少年已经有精神问题，所以他们转向虚拟世界，”她说。

今日单词

l Depression [dɪˈpreʃn] 抑郁

l anxiety [æŋˈzaɪəti] 焦虑

l mental problems [ˈmentl] [ˈprɑbləmz] 心理问题

l virtual world [ˈvɜːrtʃuəl] [wɜːrld] 虚拟世界