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1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The process of making friends through Internet and its social inpacts

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09610143
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 教育・社会系心理学
Research InstitutionMeiji Gakuin University

Principal Investigator

IKEDA Kakuko (宮田 加久子)  Department of Scciology, Meiji Gakuin University, Professor, 社会学部・社会学科, 教授 (00184416)

Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1998
KeywordsInternet / World Wide Web / E-mail / Interpersonal relationship / Tie / Social Support / Virtual communities / Mail Survey
Research Abstract

I conducted some interviews to internet users at Yamada Village, and a mail Survey in Yokohama City to examine the process of making friends through internet and its social impacts, and got these findings as below.
(1) Internet users have more social networks which contain of many internet users than non-users. There is no difference between users and non-users in attitude to internet, desire for personal communication, innovativeness, age, gender, and education.
(2) More internet users like to use e-mail and WWW than to subscribe to virtual communities. Especially, users like to read messages at electronic boards than to write messages.
(3) Subscribers who like more reading messages than writing tend to use internet to get many information, and they judge trustworthiness of information through reputation made by other subscribers. Otherwise, Subscribers who like more writing messages tend to use internet to make interpersonal relationship in cyber, and they believe each other by norms making through exchange messages.
(4) About 20% users make friends who met through internet. They present same friendliness to these internet friends as friends in every day life, but they tend to less communicate through telephone,.
(5) Internet users tend to get social support from other users. Users who have troubles can recognize that many other people have troubles through reading messages, therefore they can protect their self-esteem and keep good well-being.

  • Research Products

    (6 results)

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All Publications (6 results)

  • [Publications] 宮田加久子: "購買の意思決定過程における対人コミュニケション"日本社会心理学会第40回大会発表論文集. 202-203 (1999)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 谷川彰英、無藤隆、門脇厚司(編): "迷走する現代と子どもたち(21世紀の教育と子どもたち第1巻)"東京書籍. 349 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 門脇厚司、久富善之(編): "現代の子どもがわかる本"学事出版. 273 (2000)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] Kakuko Miyata: "The effect of personal communication on decision making to buy a personal computer"Paper presented to The 40ィイD1thィエD1 conference of Japan Social Psychology Association.. (1999)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Kakuko MIYATA.: "Possibility and Risk of Internet"In Akihide TANIGAWA, Takashi MUTOU & Atsushi KDOAKI (Eds) _A child of today Tokyo Shoseki.. 289-343 (2000)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Kakuko MIYATA.: "The Change of media environment and young people"In Atsushi KADOAKI & Yoshiyuki FUKUTOMI(Eds) _The book for understanding children Gakuji Shuppan. (2000)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2001-10-23  

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