| Summary: | 碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 經濟學系碩士班 === 104 === The prevailing information communication tools and wireless networking services not only increase the time consumed by the people in Taiwan on the former but also make them indulged in the latter. The surveys show the high figures of internet access frequency of and time spent by children and teenagers in Taiwan currently where 31% access the internet each day and 1/3 consume over 3 hours on the internet access each day. The digital anxiety disorders in association with severe mental and corporal disorders and issues on real interaction with others in person arise from information communication tools overused for long. Consequently, the data of the 2014 survey on personal and household digital divide in Taiwan compile by the National Development Council, Executive Yuan apply to identifying the determinants of digital anxiety behaviors and how they affect mental and corporal disorders and real interaction with others in person for the people in Taiwan via propensity score matching method. The positive outcomes identify the determinants of digital anxiety as follows: female, youth, high educational level, employment, conventional information communication tools and wireless network access. In addition, digital anxiety leads to the followings as well: additional increases of mental and corporal disorders and issues on real interaction with others in person by 12.2% and 5.2%, respectively; the divide of employment by 3.2% and 3.6%, respectively; and additional increases of mental and corporal disorders and issues on real interaction with others in person for students by 17.9% and 8.5%, respectively. The last is the most severe.
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