A study of the trouble which happens in a friend relation when a university student used computer-mediated communication.

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590133
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Social Welfare
• Principal Investigator: OKAMOTO Kaori 東京福祉大学, 心理学部, 准教授 (30454292)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): ISHIZAKI Tatsuya 東京福祉大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (50612818) ; SAITO Hitomi 東京福祉大学, 心理学部, 講師 (40551817)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: CMC / コミュニケーション場面の認知 / ソーシャル・ネットワーク・サービス / LINE / 既読スルー(既読無視）

Outline of Final Research Achievements

University students recognized a inter-personal communication situation using “LINE App.” as follows. The first is Daily life's conversation, and the second is The contact and the confirmation to play, The third is Confirmation about the class of the university. University students recognized a “Kidoku-Mushi (Meaning not to reply after reading a message)” as follows. The first is that causes negative feeling, the second is turning attention., and the third is that have a reason understood objectively.
It was investigated about a relation between 3 factors as the use purpose “LINE App.”, the recognition about “Kidoku-Mushi", egogram. As a result, it was indicated that there is a possibility that the use purpose and the recognition about “Kidoku-Mushi" are different depending on personality.This result indicates the necessity which considers personality when the way to evade friend related trouble by LINE use is studied.

Free Research Field

社会心理学