摘要：The aim of the study is to consider technology-related changes in psychological needsand boundaries that affect one’s personal adaptation to the info-communication society,as well as how they relate to problematic or excessive technology use. Based on thepsychological model of the consequences of technology use, we’ve picked two forms oftechnology use (one related to mobile phones and the other related to the Internet) froma revised version of our Technology-Related Psychological Consequences Questionnaire.The new version includes nine questions: two assessing the excessive use of technology(the inability to resist using technology and subjective dependence), four assessingchanges in psychological boundaries (boundaries extension and violation, easiness-relatedand opportunity-related preference for technology) and the other three measuringtechnology-related needs (functionality, convenience and image making). In the normativesample (N=132), appropriate reliability, factor validity and convergent validity weredemonstrated in comparisons to the picture measure of the technology-related boundarieschange. Based on hierarchical regression and moderator analysis, it was shown thatchanges in psychological boundaries affect the excessive use of technology (explainingan additional 17-27% of the variance) after adjusting for frequency of use and age group.The extension of boundaries and ease-of-use-related preference for mobile phones versusthe Internet predicted satisfaction with life after adjusting for frequency of use, agegroup, inability to resist and subjective dependency respectively; however, the figureswere not statistically significant. Thus, our data supports the hypothesis that there aredifferent kinds of technology-related changes in psychological boundaries that manifestthemselves in the subjective feeling of dependence on technology and the feeling thatit is impossible to do without technology, which might in some cases be important forpersonal satisfaction with life.
关键词：psychological consequences of technology; adaptation in the info-communication;society; the revised version of the Technology-Related Psychological Consequences;Questionnaire; the psychology of Internet use; the psychology of mobile phone use;excessive use of technology
