Their wellbeing was even higher than those who never used such devices.
他们的幸福感甚至高于那些从未使用过此类设备的人。
More TV watching and more electronic communication both correlated with lower wellbeing.
看电视的时间越长，与电子交流的时间越长，幸福感就越低。
Scientists tell us this can backfire and actually have a negative impact on our wellbeing.
科学家告诉我们，这可能适得其反，实际上会对我们的幸福产生负面影响。
Instead, being grateful for small things every day is a much better way to improve wellbeing.
相反，每天对小事心存感激是提高幸福感的一个更好的方式。
Twenge and her colleagues wanted to understand why this change in average wellbeing occurred.
特温格和她的同事们想要了解为什么平均幸福感会发生这样的变化。
Data reveals that economic inequality rather than family income might affect people's wellbeing.
数据显示，影响人们的幸福感的或许不是家庭收入，而是经济不平等。
Instead, they look after their wellbeing instinctively, and usually more effectively than we do as grownups.
相反，他们本能地照管自己的幸福，而且通常比我们成年人更有效。
The researchers looked at time spent in a number of activities that could plausibly be driving the wellbeing decline.
研究人员观察了一些可能导致幸福感下降的活动所花费的时间。
There are already examples of innovative schools which combine mental health and wellbeing provision with a strong academic curriculum.
已经有一些创新型学校的例子，它们具备完善的学术课程设置，同时注重学生的心理健康，并为学生提供福利。
Unfortunately, activities involving direct contact with people, which contributed to better wellbeing, were found to be on the decline.
不幸的是，人们发现，有助于提高幸福感的与人直接接触的活动减少了。
They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices—a couple of hours a week—had the highest wellbeing.
他们发现花很少时间玩电子设备的青少年——每周一两个小时——幸福感最高。
For instance, years with a larger increase in online usage were followed by years with lower wellbeing, rather than the other way around.
例如，在线使用量增长较大的年份之后的是幸福感较低的年份，而不是相反的情况。
Twenge's team's analysis of the answers confirmed the earlier, well-established wellbeing climb, with scores rising across the 1990s, and into the later 2000s.
特温格的团队对这些答案的分析证实了早期的、公认的幸福感的上升趋势，这一趋势贯穿整个90年代，持续至21世纪00年代末期。
I suspect that some experts in the field will be keen to address alternative explanations, such as unassessed variables playing a role in the wellbeing decline.
我怀疑该领域的一些专家会热衷于寻找其他解释，比如未评估的变量在幸福感下降中发挥的作用。
In response to past critics, Twenge and her co-researchers stress they are not trying to prove that the use of digital devices reduces young people's wellbeing.
在回应过去的批评时，特温格和她的同事强调，他们并没有试图证明使用电子设备会降低年轻人的幸福感。
The dataset they used did not include economic data, so instead the researchers looked at whether the 2013-16 wellbeing decline was tracking economic indicators.
他们使用的数据集不包括经济数据，所以研究人员转而研究2013至2016年幸福感的下降是否与经济指标有关。
Less sport, and fewer meetings with peers correlated with lower wellbeing, as did less time reading print media (newspapers) and, surprisingly, less time doing homework.
运动量少、与同伴聚会少、阅读印刷媒体（即报纸）少都与幸福感较低有关，但令人惊奇的是，做作业的时间少也与幸福感较低相关。
The researchers also note that the recession hit some years before we see the beginning of the wellbeing drop, and before the steepest wellbeing decline, which occurred in 2013.
研究人员还指出，在我们发现幸福感开始下降之前，在2013年出现最急剧的幸福感下降之前，经济衰退就已经出现了。
First, they explain that if a given variable is playing a role in affecting wellbeing then we should expect any change in that variable to correlate with the observed changes in wellbeing.
首先，他们解释说，如果一个给定的变量在影响幸福感方面发挥了作用，那么我们应该预期该变量的任何变化都与所观察到的幸福感变化相关。
The function of a well-designed state intervention is not to deprive people of liberty but to build social capacity and infrastructure that helps people take responsibility for their wellbeing.
规划完善的国家干预不应剥夺人的自由，而应建立起社会能力和基础设施，以帮助人们对自己的幸福负责。
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