Factors Affecting the Use of Internet by Youth –Social Workers

Autor: Chia-Ling SU, 蘇嘉鈴
Rok vydání: 2011
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 99
The purpose of this research is focused on knowing the condition that social workers who provide the teenagers service will face. First, the real Internet using condition, second, the factor of affecting Internet behavior, and the last, the difficulty using the Internet service for social work. This research employs questionnaire investigation, adopting the method of general survey. My clients are total 191 social workers who provide teenage service in Taiwan. The questionnaire is self-edit type. The content of questionnaire includes four parts. The first part is that investing the Internet environment and using condition in the institutes. The second part is investing the situation which social workers apply to the Internet service in the institute at present. The third part is surveying the real opinion, feeling and the motivation when social workers use the Internet service. The last part is querying the social workers' profile. All the data we acquired will analyze by statistic ways such as descriptive statistics, t-test, oneway anova, Spearman rank order correlation coefficient, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient and hierarchical regression. We found out that social workers spend much time on surfing the Internet. The most average time surfing the Internet during the working time is over two hours and under three hours; the most time during non-working time is over five hours. However, when we measured the using degree of various Internet function, we found out the using degree is low. In various kinds of function, the best using degree is information delivery and function of search. The second is function of sociability, and the third is function of interaction. Subsequently, the function of entertainment is the worst. In addition, when social workers work, all kinds of using the Internet degree are also low. In all kinds of work, running searching information and advocacy work are the highest degree of using the Internet. The second is case work, and the last is group work. Besides, the factor which affects social workers to use the Internet service is as below: 1.The using degree factor which affects social workers to use the Internet service (1) In all the factors which affect the using degree of information delivery and search function, instrumental motivation has the most powerful influence. (2) In all the factors which affect the using degree of sociability function in the Internet, the restriction degree of using the Internet and entertainment motivation have the most powerful influence. (3) In all the factors which affect the using degree of entertainment function in the Internet, entertainment motivation has the most powerful influence. (4) In all the factors which affect the using degree of interaction function in the Internet, the atonomous learning of the Internet attitudes has the most powerful influence. 2. Using the Internet degree of various working items which affect social workers to apply the Internet service to (1) In all the factors which affect the using degree of case work in the Internet, amount of work content has the most powerful influence. (2) In all the factors which affect the using degree of group work in the Internet, cognitive toward Performance of the Internet attitudes has the most powerful influence. (3) In all the factors which affect the using degree of searching information and advocacy, only the atonomous learning of the Internet attitudes has the most powerful influence. This research is according to the results, it gives some suggestion to practice field and education field in order to offer social workers who helps teenagers a straight way to apply the Internet service to social work. We are looking forward to promoting the utilization viii rate of social workers who serve teenagers using the Internet.
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