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.
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 of 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.”
Few studies have been done on how Web access directly affects happiness. So researchers from the Trajectory Partnership, a U.K.-based think tank that carried out the study on behalf of the BCS, analyzed data from 35,000 people across the globe who took part in the World Values Survey from 2005 to 2007. 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 [in 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 affect.”
The Trajectory Partnership says that the survey’s results have motivated them to go further in trying to answer the question of why some people benefit from Web access more than others. “We hope to establish why this works and in particular how is it working with women and disempowered groups,” says social scientist Willmott. (Read “Welcome to Googleville?”)
With burgeoning interest in finding ways to measure progress beyond GDP — Bhutan has its index for gross national happiness and the U.N. produces a Human Development Report each year — countries could use future studies like this one to help form government policy. The BCS hopes its report will play an important role in shaping how the technology industry develops its products and works toward bridging the digital divide. “The more we can make technology work for humankind, the better,” says Willmott.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/
At any time due to the fact their feud in UFC 107 in December, there have been numerous times, exactly where it was imagined that Evans and Jackson may possibly collide alongside just one an additional. However, Jackson announced a retirement, which did not final for prolonged, but set the match on hold. Now, with the star announcing a return, fairly very much lately, the feud has been reignited. Equally of them will get an possibility to settle their differences as soon as and for all when they go head-to-head in opposition to one a different in UFC 114 on May 29.
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It went to decision! That SUCKS!!! I thought it was going to be a stand and BANG thing. Evans, is still a jerk, but he won. Oh well.
Rampage needs to do the Kimbo Slice thing, and retire from the UFC. Man!
I think Rampage was unprepared honestly. Did you see Evans training partner?? Dude was like 300 punds
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