Gender and the Internet: Women communicating and men searching
Gender and the Internet: Women communicating and men searching
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DOI：
10.1023/a:1010937901821
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发表时间：
2001-03-01
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影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Schmitt, N
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作者：
Jackson, LA;Ervin, KS;Schmitt, N
这项研究调查了互联网使用中的性别差异以及造成这些差异的因素。 630 名英美资源集团本科生样本完成了学生计算机和互联网调查，其中包含有关电子邮件和网络使用以及使用的潜在情感和认知中介因素的问题。根据互联网使用的一般模型，我们预测并发现，女性比男性更多地使用电子邮件，男性比女性更多地使用网络，女性报告更多的计算机焦虑，更少的计算机自我效能感，以及更少的有利和更少刻板的计算机态度。确定互联网使用中性别差异中介因素的路径分析表明，计算机自我效能感、孤独感和抑郁在一定程度上解释了性别差异，但在考虑这些因素后，性别仍然对使用产生直接影响。讨论了实现互联网使用的民主化潜力和好处的影响。
This research examined gender differences in Internet use and factors responsible for these differences. A sample of 630 Anglo American undergraduates completed the Student Computer and Internet Survey that contained questions about e-mail and Web use, and about potential affective and cognitive mediators of use. Based on a general model of Internet use, we predicted and found that females used e-mail more than did males, males used the Web more than did females, and females reported more computer anxiety, less computer self-efficacy, and less favorable and less stereotypic computer attitudes. Path analysis to identify mediators of gender differences in Internet use revealed that computer self-efficacy, loneliness, and depression accounted in part for gender differences, but that gender continued to have a direct effect on use after these factors were considered. Implications for realizing the democratizing potential and benefits of Internet use are discussed.