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Want to boost your wellbeing? Join an online forum
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Contributing to internet discussion forums has been found to boost your
wellbeing -- and can even improve community engagement offline.
Research undertaken by the University of Exeter and published in the journal
Computers in Human Behaviour has found that in spite of the rise of social
networks, 10 percent of internet users in the UK and 20 percent of users in
the US still contribute to forums. The authors of the study believe this may
well be due to the degree of anonymity forum interactions allow.
Two distinct sets of groups of forum users were examined as part of the
study: those who used forums based around a subject that could potentially be
stigmatised, like mental health, and those who used forums for more generic
subjects, like sporting activities. Each set of users answered the same
questions regarding their reasons for joining the forum, whether their
expectations of the forums had been filled, how they identified with other
forum users whether they were generally satisfied in life and how they
engaged with the issues discussed on forums in the 'real' world.
The results convinced the researchers not only that there was still a place
for forums on the internet, but that forums should boast more loudly about
the benefits participating in them can bring. Forum users, they discovered,
were already well aware of the positive effects, and the researchers think
more people may well benefit from joining them.
People who used forums to talk about stigmatised subjects such as mental
health were found to have enjoyed particularly strong benefits. "In addition
to forums boosting users' well-being and enhancing options for social
capital, they can foster a strong commitment to the forum issues and a desire
to work on behalf of the forum in an offline capacity. In other words,
offline life may be facilitated by online activity," write the authors.
Psychologist Louise Pendry, who was lead author, said that the results paint
an "optimistic picture" of discussion forums. "Our study showed users often
discover that forums are a source of great support, especially those seeking
information about more stigmatising conditions. Moreover, we found that users
of both forum types who engaged more with other forum users showed a greater
willingness to get involved in offline activities related to the forum, such
as volunteering, donating or campaigning," she said.
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內容主要是提到英國Exeter大學針對網路論壇使用者所做出的一份實驗報告顯示
即使在SNS當道的現今 在美國有20% 英國有10%的網路使用者依然鍾情於使用網路論壇
其原因則是因為可匿名進行各式交流活動
研究中有針對兩個不同論壇上的用戶群進行調查
結論上絕大多數的使用者都是認為參加論壇的討論
讓自己的生活獲得加分效果
其中也提到
論壇不只可以讓使用者感到幸福進而提升社會資源條件
在論壇中積極接觸各種主題並且在現實生活中也能為了這些內容而積極行動
這也顯示出因積極參與網上論壇的活動進而去改善使用者現實生活之可能性
PTT群組這麼大 想必可以改善更多人的生活:)
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