Research 3

*study evidence
The revised Young’s (1996) Internet Addiction Test (IAT)
and the UCLA Loneliness Scale (Version III) were applied to measure a random
sampling of 335 Chinese college students. The results show that the utmost perceived
gratifications of the students’ uses of campus-SNS websites are to know what’s new
about their classmates and friends, and to communicate with others. Campus-SNS
website addicts tend to be female, young and have used the campus-SNS websites for
relatively a long time and frequently visit the homepages of others. More importantly,
loneliness was found to be a significant predictor for the campus-SNS website
addiction.
http://www.cyberpsychology.eu/view.php?cisloclanku=2008111802