The Relationship between Psychological Well-being and Media Use of College Students in Taiwan

台灣大學生心理康寧與媒體使用關係之研究

馬上閔(Shang-Min Ma) ； 譚躍(Yue Tan) ； 馬上鈞(Shang-Chun Ma)

《人文社會科學研究》 3卷3期 (2009/09) Pp. 94-115

https://doi.org/10.6284/NPUSTHSSR.2009.3(3)5

摘要

本研究旨在探討台灣大學生心理康寧與媒體使用之關係。本研究採問卷調查法，以Ryff(1989)發展之「心理康寧量表」及自編之「媒體使用問春」為研究工具，並以台灣大學生為研究對象，探討其不同心理康寧層面（自我掌控、環境掌握、個人成長、正面關係、生活目的、自我接受）與使用不同媒體使用行為（看電視、打網路遊戲、上網聊天、閱讀、看電影、看電視新闖、讀報紙新聞、讀網路新聞、搜索網路信息和網上購物）之關係，共發放538份問卷，回收有效問卷467份，所得資料以SPSS14.0套裝軟體進行t考驗和多元迴歸分析，其結果如下：(1)不同性別之大學生其心理康寧與媒體使用之關係有顯著不同；(2)因爲不同的媒體具有不同的形式和內容，大學生使用他們的頻率和時間與不同的「心理康寧」層面也存在不同的關係。(3)「心理康寧量表」中之「生活目的」層面最能有效預測大學生不同媒體之使用行為；另外，「個人成長」是唯一預測女性大學生打線上遊戲頻率和時間長短的顯著心理變項。

關鍵字

大學生 ； 心理康寧 ； 媒體使用

並列摘要

This study aims to examine the relationship between media use and psychological well-being of college students in Taiwan. Employing a questionnaire survey of college students in Taiwan, Ryff's (1989) scale of psychological well-being, and a media use questionnaire, ten kinds of media use behaviors (watching TV, playing online games, online chatting, reading books, watching movies, watching TV news, reading newspaper news, reading online news, online information searching, and online shopping) are predicted by the six dimensions (autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, positive relations with others, purpose in life, and self-acceptance) of psychological well- being with gender controlled as an intervening variable. Data were analyzed with t tests and multiple regression analysis.
Based on the findings of a survey of 467 college students, three conclusions are made. First, males and females show different patterns in terms of the relationships between their psychological well-being and media use behavior. Second, since different media activities have different characteristics, each media use behavior correlates with different dimension of psychological well-being. Third, purpose in life is the best predictor of all the six psychological well-being dimensions. In addition, personal growth is the only significant predictor of how often and how long female students play online games.

並列關鍵字

college students ； psychological well-being ； media use behaviors

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