Internet use and personal empowerment of hearing-impaired adolescents
Internet use and personal empowerment of hearing-impaired adolescents
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DOI：
10.1016/j.chb.2008.02.007
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发表时间：
2008-09-01
影响因子：
9.9
通讯作者：
Sadovsky, Yael
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作者：
Barak, Azy;Sadovsky, Yael
互联网已经成为一种普通的、被广泛接受的替代社会环境——被称为网络空间——许多人在其中参加各种活动。对于听障人士来说，网络空间提供了额外的好处，主要有两个基本原因：一是主要基于视觉（文字和图像）而不是听觉渠道的交流手段；二是方便地向其他用户隐藏他们的残疾，从而获得更多的安全感和平等感。当前研究的目的是将性别和青春期阶段（12-15岁或16-19岁）作为附加的独立变量，将听力受损的青少年使用互联网的特征、强度和类型与同等听力正常的参与者进行比较。此外，通过比较低强度和高强度听力受损用户与听力健全参与者之间的孤独感和自尊，研究了使用互联网的强度对聋人参与者幸福感的可能调节作用。114名听力受损的参与者和100名听力正常的参与者接受了问卷调查，他们的智力和社会经济地位相匹配。主要结果显示，无论男女，在青春期的两个阶段，听力受损的参与者都比听力正常的参与者更有动力使用互联网，而且确实使用了更多的互联网。此外，听力受损的人在个人和群体交流中使用互联网的次数比听力正常的人多。听力和密集使用互联网的聋人参与者的幸福感水平相似，都高于不密集使用互联网的聋人参与者的幸福感。因此，互联网可能被视为听力受损者的授权代理。(C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd版权所有。
The Internet has become an ordinary and widely accepted alternative social environment-known as cyberspace-in which many people take part in numerous activities. For the hearing-impaired, cyberspace provides extra benefits for two basic reasons: means of communication, which is primarily based on visual (text and images) and not auditory channels, and the convenient possibility of concealing their handicap from other users, thus gaining more security and a sense of equality. The purpose of the current study was to examine characteristics, intensity, and types of use of the Internet by hearing-impaired adolescents compared to an equivalent group of normal-hearing participants, with gender and adolescence stage (age 12-15, or 16-19) as additional independent variables. In addition, the intensity of using the Internet as a possible moderator of deaf participants' well-being was examined by comparing measures of loneliness and self-esteem between low- and high-intensive hearing-impaired users on the one hand, and hearing participants, on the other. Questionnaires were administered to 114 hearing-impaired and 100 hearing participants, matched for intelligence and socio-economic status. Main results showed that for both genders and for the two adolescence stages, hearing-impaired participants were motivated to use, and actually did use, the Internet more intensively than their hearing counterparts. Furthermore, the hearing-impaired used the Internet more than did hearing participants for both personal and group communication. Hearing and intensively Internet-using deaf participants were similar in level of well-being, both higher than the well-being of less-intensively Internet-using deaf participants. The Internet may thus be viewed as an empowering agent for the hearing-impaired. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.