Research On The Dimensions Of The Metaphorical Representation Of Internet In College Students

Metaphor is not just a linguistic figure of speech; it is rather a way of thinking and cognition. Metaphor is regarded as one of the metaphoric interventions and is used in psychotherapy generally and effecturally. Internet addiction has been becoming the focus in the field of psychological research. A lot of relative study on this point showed that internet addiction will bring some negative influence on the internet user's work, study, and even their families. The university students'internet use behavior and their internet addiction have been brought great attention by the society, because they have been regarded the main user of internet. This paper is to study the characters of student's metaphorical representation of internet, and to study relations among college students'metaphorical representation of internet and their internet use.This paper is composed of six parts:Part one is literature review. In this part, researches on internet use and internet addiction are review. The existing research literature on general metaphor representation and metaphor in psychotherapy was reviewed.The part two, hypothesis and objective of the total research are set. We suppose that metaphorical representation of internet is composed three aspects through literature research.The part three, several studies are developed. In this paper, study on the structural dimensions of metaphorical representation of internet in college students. Content analysis and structural dimensions of the metaphorical representation of internet are set. The formal questionnaire was developed based on the content analysis. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire were examined strictly to prove that the questionnaire has good reliability and validity.The part four, some college students were surveyed with this scale. Analysis the reason and the characters of metaphorical representation of internet in college students from analysis and explore the relation among the internet use and metaphorical representation of internet.Part five is analysis and discussion. Results of the above studies were discussed and explained.We draw some conclusion in part six. Conclusions of this research are as follow:First, the explorative factor analysis (EFA) reveled that the Metaphorical Representation of Internet in college students was composed of three dimensions, the Phenomenon, Needs, Effect.Second, the formal questionnaire was developed based on the revised model. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire were examined strictly to prove that the questionnaire has good reliability and validity, which could be used as a good measurement in other researches.Third, in this research, the dimension of the metaphorical representation of internet in college was explored. And include studied the differences in the grade, sexual, major, school in the college students. College students'metaphorical representation of internet is correlated significantly with internet addication, and the Needs, Effect were the most powerful predictors in regression model of internet addiction.