| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 資訊管理系碩士班 === 99 === With the rapid development of information technology and Internet, Internet impact on contemporary society is also increasing. Internet has become popular with young people in Asia, while the young people in Taiwan even value it more than television. While the Internet has brought great convenience of living, negative outcomes due to abuse may also be happened. Consequently, the problematic Internet use has been an important research issue since past 15 years.
This study bases on the “Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Generalized Problematic Internet Use” proposed by Davis （2001）, and intensive literature review to construct a casual model form stressful life events to negative outcomes, with the mediation of “Preference for Online Social Interaction ; POSI） and “Mood regulation.” A questionnaire survey with purposive sampled students from a University in central Taiwan in conducted to validate the model.
Major research conclusion can be drawn as :
（1）partial stressful life events significant positively affect POSI.
（2）POSI significant positively affect mood regulation.
（3）POSI and mood regulation both have significant positive effect on deficient self regulation.
（4）deficient self regulation significant affects negative outcomes.
These findings are analyzed for their academic as well as managerial implications, and insightful and practical guidelines for lessening the problematic Internet use and its negative outcomes of young people are suggested.
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