Research On College Students' Computer-Mediated Communication Types And Its Characteristics

At the information era, with the popularization of computers and network, the Computer-Mediated Communication has become the important means of college students, and deeply influence their life. It is very important to explore the college students' computer-mediated communication types its characteristics, and to lead college students to communicate correctly by internet. It is the external requirement of education on college students' psychological health; is the need of college students' psychological diathesis development and growth; can be the theoretics and practices of the psychology of the internet.The study procedures are as following: from theory analysis to tool development, to investigation and statistics, to relationships display, then to hypothesis validation. Based on literature analysis and the inventory survey, we design the college students' computer-mediated communication types scale, and they we define the connotation by factor analysis, and analyses the developmental characteristics of college students' computer-mediated communication types and its relationship to internet addiction. We can draw the following conclusions from this study:1. This study prove that the types of college students' computer-mediated communication are 3 factors: social, emotional, implemental. The social communication comprises community, study and interest, information and connection. The emotional communication comprises sensibility, amusement, and self-expression. The implemental communication comprises business and management. The self-designed college students' computer-mediated communication types scale has been proven to be of fine validity and reliability though examination.2. On the whole, there are significant differences between different grades, gender, majior, net-age, has or has-not personal computer, and times of net-surfing. They are: the higher the grade, the higher the scores of the types; boys' scores are higher than girls'; the scores of students maioring in computer are higher than the other major, and there is no...