A Study On Correlation Between Internet Using Behavior, Motivation And Personality In 286 College Students

Objective: The analysis is based on the survey of data with random sampling collected from 286 college students. The statistic techniques of T-test, N-q test and Pearson correlation are used to explore the Internet using behavior, the main using motivations, and the relationship between Internet using behavior, motivation and personality. The results show: Male students, freshmen, natural science students and those with higher educated parents tend to spend long time on line every week, and be high Internet addiction. The main Internet using motivations of 286 college students are motivations of social contacting, virtual community, anonymous contacting, self-confidence, products information and social studying. The college students who have different sex, grade, specialty and educated parents have the different motivations. The motivations of anonymous contacting, virtual community, self-confidence, products information are positively correlated with Internet addiction. The most motivation of Internet addiction is motivation of self-confidence. Internet addiction is positively correlated with EPQ-N and middle personality, but negatively correlated with independence and extraversion stable personality. EPQ-N is positively correlated with motivations of self-confidence and products information. Independence is negatively correlated with motivations of virtual community, self-confidence and products information . EPQ-E, extraversion stable personality and sociality are positively correlated with motivations of social contacting and social studying. Middle personality is positively correlated with self-confidence motivation. So, the college students have the characteristics of Internet using behavior and correspondent using motivations. Internet using motivation is correlated with using behavior, and Internet using behavior, motivation are also correlated with personality in college students.