| 摘要: | With its increasing popularity, the Internet has a variety of functions for both work and leisure. The Internet is convenient, borderless, and does not have time limit.
Internet addicted teenagers almost do everything on the Internet, such as playing online game, making friends, searching for information, buying books, and contacting with family and friends. The Internet improves one’s interaction with family and friends. Online interaction can overcome people’s lacking of contact owing to distance or lifestyle difference. With the Internet, interaction can be more frequent and convenient. The main purpose of this study is to develop a comprehensive model and instrument for measuring Taiwanese high school students' individual cyber living.
This study will compile variables (online game, cyber friendship, individual psyches, family life, peer relationships) from previous research and establish Cyber living scale.
Data was gathered from 2113 Taiwanese high school students (1162 males and 951 females, aged 16–19 years). Four types of models were analyzed. The resulting instrument, which is consisted of 22 items and five factors, is presented as a reliable, valid, and useful measure for assessing the students’ cyber living. Drawing on some of the key factors that influence the cyber living, this paper also provides the way to predict future cyber living. |
