自动化的隐性成本:机器人采用是否会影响儿童的心理健康?
Yueqing Zou1,2, Jiaxin Wang3, Liang Wang4
1Department of Business Administration, Zhejiang Institute of Administration, Hangzhou, China.
Frontiers in psychology
|October 27, 2025
概括
工业自动化和机器人的采用对儿童的心理健康产生了负面影响. 在中国,机器人使用的增加导致儿童患重度抑郁症的比率更高,这与学术压力和家庭时间减少有关.
科学领域:
- 经济学 经济学 经济学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
背景情况:
- 工业自动化正在改变劳动力市场,可能造成代际成本.
- 机器人采用可能会增加劳动力市场竞争,影响非经济成果.
- 在社会变革的背景下,儿童心理健康是一个日益关注的问题.
研究的目的:
- 调查工业自动化对中国儿童心理健康的影响.
- 量化机器人采用和儿童抑郁症之间的关系.
- 探索这些影响的调解因素和人口变化.
主要方法:
- 利用了中国家庭小组研究 (2012-2020年) 和国际机器人联合会数据.
- 采用两阶段最小平方 (2SLS) 方法,将美国机器人数据作为仪器变量.
- 分析了机器人采用率与儿童严重抑郁症患病率之间的联系.
主要成果:
- 机器人采用的标准偏差增加与中国儿童中严重抑郁的可能性上升0.75个百分点相关.
- 负面的心理健康影响是由增加的学术压力和减少的积极的亲子互动.
- 城市地区的女孩和儿童经历了更强大的负面影响.
结论:
- 自动化的社会影响超出了劳动力范围,影响了未来几代人的心理健康.
- 机器人采用会给孩子们带来心理上的代价,这些代价是由学术和家庭因素调解的.
- 该研究强调需要考虑自动化的更广泛的社会和心理后果.
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