Name: 孤獨心理 (The psychology of loneliness)
Uploaded: 2025-10-14T18:09:45.000Z
Duration: 2 min 51 s

Foreign there's been an increasing amount of attention over the past several years about the negative consequences of loneliness, of feeling like you are isolated and disconnected from other people around you.

過去幾年來，大家越來越關注孤獨感、孤立感以及與周遭人疏離的負面影響。

基礎數量詞

But there are many situations in which being alone can actually be good for us.

但其實有很多情況下，獨處對我們是有益的。

動名詞

We often hear that being alone is bad for us.

我們常常聽到說，獨處對我們不好。

This messaging is getting us to believe that being alone is bad for us.

這樣的訊息讓我們相信，獨處對我們來說是壞事。

So if we find ourselves in this state, we might think, oh, this isn't good, which could in turn have cascading negative effects for our health and wellbeing.

所以如果我們發現自己處於這種狀態，我們可能會想，哦，這不好，這反過來可能會對我們的健康和福祉產生連鎖的負面影響。

We've done research on this and found that the media is approximately 10 times more likely to describe experiences of being alone as negative as compared to positive.

我們對此做過研究，發現媒體描述獨處經驗為負面的機率，大約是描述為正面的十倍。

It matters because if you expose people to descriptions of being alone as good for you versus bad for you, that has direct implications for how people think about being alone.

這很重要，因為如果你讓人們接觸到關於獨處是好的還是壞的描述，這會直接影響人們對獨處的看法。

When we do research where we track people over time and we look at how much time they spend alone, what we see is that if you're the kind of person who thinks being alone is good for you, you actually feel good when you spend time alone.

當我們做研究，追蹤人們一段時間，並觀察他們花了多少時間獨處時，我們會發現，如果你是那種認為獨處是好事的人，你獨處時其實感覺很好。

But if you're the kind of person who thinks being alone is bad for you, then you feel more lonely when you spend time alone.

但如果你是那種認為獨處是壞事的人，那麼當你獨處時，你會感到更孤獨。

What I love about that finding is it gives us the opportunity to potentially intervene because we can shift people's beliefs about being alone.

我喜歡這個發現的地方是，它給了我們潛在介入的機會，因為我們可以改變人們對獨處的看法。

And what the research suggests is that if we can get people to embrace these experiences of being on their own as more positive for them, they will in fact have that effect.

研究顯示，如果我們能讓大家擁抱這些獨處的經驗，並認為對自己是正面的，那麼事實上就會產生那樣的效果。

Rather than thinking about that experience as reflecting something wrong about me or the circumstances, we can reframe that situation as an opportunity to be creative, to be alone with our thoughts in a pleasant way.

與其認為這種經驗反映了我或情況有什麼不對，我們可以重新定義這種情況，將其視為一個創意的機會，以愉快的方式獨處並與自己的思緒相處。

What I'd love to see more in the media and public health campaigns, however, is a recognition that being alone doesn't necessarily need to lead to that state, to that experience of loneliness.

然而，我更希望在媒體和公共衛生宣傳活動中看到更多認識到，獨處不一定會導致那種孤獨感。

I'd like to see some of the benefits of being alone celebrated.

我希望看到一些獨處的好處被讚揚。

The more we talk about these things, the more it gets on our minds and the more it penetrates into the culture more broadly.

我們越談論這些事情，它就越會進入我們的心思，並更廣泛地滲透到文化中。