Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom.
Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2012 Jul;15(7):370-2. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2012.0033. Epub 2012 Jun 12.
In 2002, we found gender differences in the use of the Internet. Since then, however, the Internet has changed considerably. We therefore conducted a follow-up study in 2012. The study involved 501 students (389 females and 100 males, 12 participants unspecified gender) and we measured Internet use, Internet anxiety, and Internet identification. We found that males had a greater breadth of Internet use; they used the Internet more for games and entertainment than females. The differentiation between males and females in terms of Internet use is evident, and in some ways is even more distinct than 10 years ago. In our previous research we had found no gender differences in the use of the Internet for communication, whereas in the current study we have found that females use the Internet for communication than males and were using social network sites more than males. We also found, consistent with our previous study, that Internet identification and Internet anxiety were related to Internet use.
2002 年，我们发现了互联网使用中的性别差异。然而，从那时起，互联网发生了巨大的变化。因此，我们在 2012 年进行了一项后续研究。该研究涉及 501 名学生（389 名女性和 100 名男性，12 名参与者未指定性别），我们测量了互联网使用、互联网焦虑和互联网认同。我们发现男性的互联网使用范围更广；他们比女性更多地使用互联网玩游戏和娱乐。男性和女性在互联网使用方面的差异明显，在某些方面甚至比 10 年前更加明显。在我们之前的研究中，我们没有发现互联网在沟通方面的使用存在性别差异，而在当前的研究中，我们发现女性比男性更多地使用互联网进行沟通，并且比男性更多地使用社交网站。我们还发现，与我们之前的研究一致，互联网认同和互联网焦虑与互联网使用有关。
