| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 運動與休閒管理研究所在職碩士班 === 94 === Abstract
This study is intended to investigate the status quo of the college boarding students’ online leisure activity, and further to understand the variations caused by people with different backgrounds. A questionnaire survey of 4,583 NTNU boarding students was conducted in the second semester of the academic year 2006, and 2,983 questionnaires were completed and returned; these numbers result in an effective response rate of 65.1%.
We found four characteristics from our analysis of the boarding students’ online activity: (1) In terms of frequent internet use, there was a big difference in gender; males had a bigger population; (2) The most frequent time period to go online was from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., followed by the time period from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.; (3) The purpose to frequently go online included message transmission, online surfing, and search on the database; (4) Free internet access and freedom in the dormitory resulted in students’ negligence of studies and disturbance of sleep.
We also found six characteristics from our analysis of Internet leisure benefits: (1) There was much difference between two genders in terms of educational and psychological benefits; (2) There was no obvious difference in students of different grades; (3) Colleges were quite different from each other in terms of social, relaxing, educational and psychological benefits; the College of Technology and the College of Science were higher than the College of Arts; (4) Overseas Chinese students and foreign students were quite different from the local students in terms of social, relaxing and psychological benefits; the latter were higher; (5) Different online abilities resulted in different social, relaxing, educational and psychological benefits; the more able, the higher; (6) The frequency of Internet use determined the difference in social, relaxing, educational and psychological benefits; the more frequent, the higher.
Keywords: online activity, leisure benefit, dormitory Internet, NTNU boarding students
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