On the Depression Effect of Reading much Good Book to the Techno-centered in the Information Environment

Abstract

We set up the following theoretical hypothesis that has never been studied so far; persons with reading much good book shows the tendency for the quality of life (QOL) to be high and to be less techno-centered. It was investigated and analyzed statistically based on questionnaire surveys of university students in the information sciences, and the hypothesis was verified by the covariance structure analysis. As the result, it was found that the persons with reading much good book had the high level of altruistic values. Thereby, human relations were good. Consequently, it caused less techno-centered. Moreover, the altruistic values improved the QOL. Therefore, it seems reasonable to conclude that the reading much good book can be expected as a precaution of the techno-centered and the measures of the QOL improving.