Relationship between the Daoism's SNSs Use and Loneliness at Taiwan

Abstract

For the recent year, the traditional religion at Taiwan, Daoism, denoted a significantly affection on the applications of information and communication technology (ICT). Entering into the physical locations with the Daoism culture will be not the only choice to those young groups at Taiwan. The application services including the website, electronic bulletin boards, blogs, and facebook owing to the social networking sites (SNSs) will provide the multiple channels to learn or contact with the Daoism culture for those young groups. ICT has penetrated people’s daily lives; and the outcomes of this penetration will include the changes in thoughts, behavior tendencies, community structure, and individual identification of those people. Educators, sociologists, and psychologists have continuously examined the influence on people’s mental health, life adaptation, and personality development. As we known, the issues of loneliness will be frequently mentioned to those SNSs users according to the relating community researches. However, no any studies address the issue about the relationship between the loneliness and Daoism’s SNSs use. Hence, the relation analysis will be a worthy issue to be addressed. In this study, we intended to investigate the relationship between the Daoism’s SNSs use and loneliness, and the obtaining results may be regarded as a reference for analyzing Daoism’s SNSs services and the improvement of loneliness. Firstly, we collected the behavior and recognition of Daoism’s users via on-line service platform. Among users who have permitted the app access to their public profile and completed the questionnaire scale, the app collected users’ demographic information, usage information, and scores on the Loneliness Scale based on UCLA Loneliness Scale. A total of 272 data sets were acquired, among which 16 sets were eliminated in data preprocessing because they were either incomplete or repetitive. Consequently, the data of 256 Daoism’s users were selected, yielding a data