来自伦敦（路透社）的报道：有调查显示发展中国家的年轻人感到快乐的人数比富裕国家至少多两倍。其中印度人感到最快乐，而日本人则是最痛苦。阿根廷和南非的年轻人感到快乐的比例也高达75%。MTV网络国际（MTVNI）的全球调查数据来自14个国家的5400个年轻人，16岁至34岁的人中只有34%认为他们现在生活快乐。被调查的14个国家包括阿根廷、巴西、中国、丹麦、法国、德国、印度、印度尼西亚、日本、墨西哥、南非、瑞典、英国和美国。这项调查花费了6个月的时间。
调查年轻人感到快乐的指标包括他们的安全感觉，适应社会的能力和对将来的看法等。快乐感指标在发达国家和贫穷国家是没有太大区别的，如印度第一，瑞典第二，然后是巴西。
发达国家年轻人不快乐的原因包括缺乏乐观精神、担心失业和成功的压力等。而发展中国家的大多数年轻人认为将来生活会更好，在中国更达到84%的比例。调查还显示发展中国家中觉得快乐的年轻人几乎都是认真严谨的。MTVNI的主席Bill Roedy告诉路透社，“发展中国家的经济蒸蒸日上，所以同理你也可见到人们乐观向上的精神。
发达国家的年轻人对全球化持悲观态度，大约有95%的德国年轻人认为它破坏传统习惯，但是发展中国家的年轻人则易于接受全球化并对国家经济前景保持更乐观的态度和更加以自己的国家为荣。MTVNI的调查还发现那些容易接近大众媒体的年轻人当他们缺乏很好表达真实风险的认知能力时就更易于缺乏安全感。在英国，超过80%的16到34岁的青年认为得癌症是非常恐怖的，而很少考虑癌症对机体的伤害。
Young people in developed countries unhappy
Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:24am ET
By Kate Holton
LONDON (Reuters) - Young people in developing nations are at least twice as likely to feel happy about their lives than their richer counterparts, a survey says.
Indians are the happiest overall and Japanese the most miserable.
According to an MTV Networks International (MTVNI) global survey that covered more than 5,400 young people in 14 countries, only 43 percent of the world's 16- to 34-year-olds say they are happy with their lives.
MTVNI said this figure was dragged down by young people in the developed world, including those in Britain and the United States where fewer than 30 percent of young people said they were happy with the way things were.
Only eight percent in Japan said they were happy.
Reasons for unhappiness across the developed world included a lack of optimism, concern over jobs and pressure to succeed.
In developing countries a majority in the same age group expected their lives to be more enjoyable in the future, led by China with 84 percent.
"The happier young people of the developing world are also the most religious," the survey said.
The MTVNI survey took six months to complete and resulted in the Wellbeing Index which compared the feelings of young people, based on their perceptions of how they feel about safety, where they fit into society and how they see their future.
Young people from Argentina and South Africa came joint top in the list of how happy they were at 75 percent.
The overall Wellbeing Index was more mixed between rich and poor. India came top followed by Sweden and Brazil came last.
"In developing countries, economic growth is on the go ... so you could see that logically there should be optimism and a positive feeling," Bill Roedy, the President of MTVNI, told Reuters.
Developed countries were particularly pessimistic about globalisation, with 95 percent of young Germans thinking it is ruining their culture, while developing countries which tended to be more receptive to globalisation were also more optimistic about their economic future and more proud of their nationality.
MTVNI said one of the trends they spotted was that young people with access to mass media tended to feel less safe as they did not have the cognitive skills to interpret real risk.
In the UK, more than 80 percent of 16- to 34-year-olds said they were as afraid of terrorism as they were of the getting cancer -- though the latter was far more likely to hurt them.
The 14 countries included in the survey were Argentina, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Sweden, the UK and the U.S.
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