Analysis of Self-development Effect for University Students brought about by the Internet Usage

Abstract

The hypothesis that personal growth was effective in the information gathering in the use of the net and the information sending of altruistic transmitting information (ATI) was set to the present study. It was investigated and analyzed statistically based on questionnaire surveys of university students in the information sciences, and the hypothesis was analyzed by the structural equation model. As a result, it was verified that enlightenment was effective in the information gathering and the ATI of the study purpose. Moreover, when the effect of enlightenment that read the good book was compared with it, the effect of the good book was higher. However, the effect that ATI is higher was shown only in the altruistic behavior in the real world.