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When it comes to mental health, the Internet gets a bad rap. There are count
When it comes to mental health, the Internet gets a bad rap. There are count
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2024-05-20
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When it comes to mental health, the Internet gets a bad rap. There are countless studies that suggest regular access to the Internet is linked to stress, anxiety and addiction. But before you stop tweeting and toss out your iPhone, it turns out that spending time on the Web could actually be making you happier.
A May 12 report by British researchers from the U.K.’s Chartered Institute for IT (known as BCS) have found a link between Internet access and well-being. But some benefit more than others from tapping into the information superhighway, including those with lower incomes or fewer qualifications, people living in the developing world and, perhaps most surprisingly, women.
Overall, the study found that access to the Internet leads people to feel better about their lives. "Put simply, people with IT access are more satisfied with life even when taking account of income," said Michael Willmott, the social scientist who authored the study, at a press conference. "Our analysis suggests that IT has an enabling and empowering role in people’s lives, by increasing their sense of freedom and control, which has a positive impact on well-being or happiness." Looking at a number of social and economic factors that determine happiness — including gender, age, income and education — the survey showed that Internet use empowers people by increasing their feelings of security, personal freedom and influence.
"The results...are very plausible," says Carol Graham, chair in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and author of Happiness Around the World. "If you introduce a technology into the developing world, whether it is the Internet or the cell phone, that allows people to reduce their very high constraints of getting through daily life. It has a tremendous well-being effect."
But the researchers weren’t expecting to discover that women gain so much from technology, given that it’s such a male-dominated industry. Although the report didn’t explore why women reap more happiness from Internet access than men do, the report hypothesizes that because women tend to be at the center of their family’s social network, the Web is a tool to help them keep their home lives organized. According to the Brookings Institution’s Graham, while the findings may be surprising initially, they do make sense. "Particularly the results on gender and lesser developing countries, if you consider that women in many of these contexts are either isolated or repressed in a way," she says. "IT gives them communication with the outside world, access to networks and so on. Friendships are very important to well-being as well, and one can imagine e-mail and IT being a good way to maintain those, particularly in contexts where telephones and transport are far from ideal or reliable." [br] Brookings Institution’s Graham suggests that women gain more from the Internet probably because______.
选项
A、it lets them get rid of male dominance
B、it brings them a more successful career
C、it helps them maintain communication
D、it helps them reduce living expenses
答案
C
解析
根据题干中的Brookings Institution’s Graham将本题出处定位到末段第三句。该处提到,根据布鲁金斯学会的Graham的说法,尽管这个发现最初令人惊讶,它确实有一定道理。接着她说:“……信息技术让她们能与外界沟通、接入网络等等。友谊对幸福感也很重要,可以想象,电子邮件和信息技术是维护友谊很好的方式……”文中的“这个发现”指的就是women gain more from the Internet,直接引语解释其中的原因。[C]是对文中 的IT gives them communication with the outside world和IT being a good wayto maintain those的综合概括,故为答案。[A]是针对文中a male-dominatedindustry设的干扰项,故排除:文中未说明互联网能使女性事业更成功,故排除[B];文中也未提到互联网能使她们减少生活开支,故排除[D]。
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