Development of Concept of Internet-related Social-psychological Health for Undergraduates
- VernacularTitle:大学生互联网相关社会-心理健康概念的构建
- Author:
Haiyan ZHU
;
Feng ZHANG
;
Mowei SHEN
;
Mei XU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Undergraduates;
Internet-related social-psychological health;
Factor analysis;
Internet use motives
- From:Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology
1993;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective: To explore the structure of concept of the Internet-related social-psychological health for undergraduates and develop The Internet-related Social-psychological Health Scale for Undergraduates (ISHS-CS). Methods: Employing exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis of the data of ISHS-CS.based on 2 samples of 511 and 581 of undergraduates respectively. Results: ① The structure of Internet-related social-psychological health for undergraduates consisted of 5 primary factors, viz. loneliness, social involvement, general depression, life happiness and life satisfaction. These five factors could be generalized into 2 higher-order dimensions, namely social health and psychological health. The ISHS-CS had satisfactory item validity, internal consistent reliability, construct validity and criterion-related validity. ② Relation of time of Internet use to Internet-related social-psychological health was unremarkable, but, some relation between frequency of internet use and social-psychological health was found. ③ Compared with the undergraduates based on Social-affective motive of Internet-use, those based on Information-acquisition motive possessed higher level of Internet-related social-psychological health. Conclusion: The concept of Internet-related social-psychological health was a reasonable construct for undergraduates, and the ISHS-CS could serve as a measurement of Internet-related social-psychological health for undergraduates.
