The purpose of this study was to research on the motives and behaviors of Blog utilizing for middle school and college students, who were frequent users of Blog. I tried to find the sub-factors of the Blog using motives, the Blog using behavior, and t...
The purpose of this study was to research on the motives and behaviors of Blog utilizing for middle school and college students, who were frequent users of Blog. I tried to find the sub-factors of the Blog using motives, the Blog using behavior, and the reasons for reduced interests toward Blog, and to find the relationships among these factors and the differences between the two groups. And I tried to find the typology based on Blog utilizing motives and behaviors, and to find the characteristics of the types.
In order to accomplish objectives, FGI and survey were used simultaneously. From FGI, I improved the questionnaire and the survey was conducted toward 475 male, female middle school and college students in Daegu and Kyungbuk areas. SPSS 14.0 program was used to analyze frequency, cross-tabs, factor analysis, t-test, and K-mean cluster analysis for collected data.
The research showed following conclusions. First, I found the 5 factors of Blog utilizing motives, 2 Blog utilizing behavior factors and 3 factors of the reduced interest toward Blog. Second, Blog utilizing motives, Blog utilizing behavior, and reasons for reduced interest have mutual direct influences. Third, by Blog using motive and behavior of participants, cluster analysis was conducted. They were divided into the passive Blog user group and the active Blog user one. Active user group had 236 participants and passive user group had 169. Active user group experienced more disappointment in Blog contents, felt more burdens in management, reduced interest and side effects than passive user. Active user group had higher Blog utilization, higher ratio of female students and more college students.