Table 1.
Demographics (n = 577)
| Items | Demographics | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male 51.6% | Female 47.1% | Others 1.2% | |
| Average age | 19.6 years (SD 1.31) | |||
| Academic standing | First-year: 32.2% | Second-year: 28.9% | ||
| Third-year: 21.7% | Fourth-year or above: 17.1% | |||
| Accommodation | Dormitory: 19.4% | Home/Relatives’ home: 20.3% | ||
| Apartment 58.9% | Shared: 1.4% | |||
| Living style | Alone: 71.8% | With family/relatives: 22.5% | ||
| With acquaintances/lovers: 2.4% | Room shared: 3.3% | |||
| Internet usage time by computer per day | 12 h or more: 3.3% | 10–12 h: 2.6% | 8–10 h: 5.7% | |
| 6–8 h: 13.5% | 4–6 h: 25.8% | 2–4 h: 27.7% | ||
| 0–2 h: 18.4% | Not used: 2.9% | |||
| Internet usage time by smartphones per day | 12 h or more: 3.1% | 10–12 h: 3.5% | 8–10 h: 7.8% | |
| 6–8 h: 20.6% | 4–6 h: 27.4% | 2–4 h: 26.3% | ||
| 0–2 h: 11.1% | Not used: 0.2% | |||
| Information about the Twitter account | Account Time: 44.8 months (SD 27.23) | |||
| Accounts followed: 544.6 | ||||
| Number of accounts: 2.71 (SD 1.76) | ||||
| Number of followers 481.2 | ||||
| Daily Twitter usage time | 12 h or more: 0.3% | 10–12 h: 0.5% | 8–10 h: 1.7% | |
| 6–8 h: 3.1% | 4–6 h: 6.2% | 2–4 h: 23.1% | 0–2 h: 65.0% | |
| Content viewed on Twitter (Note 1) | Killing time: 83.2% | Information about hobbies: 80.6% | ||
| News: 49.9% | Conversation with friends: 42.5% | |||
| Review confirmation: 22.5% | Dissipating stress: 21.7% | |||
| Information about COVID-19: 16.8% | Job hunting: 7.5% | |||
| Others: 4.5% | None: 0.5% | |||
| Content posted on Twitter (Notes 1 and 2) | Common hobbies: 56.3% | Photos and videos: 42.1% | ||
| Reply to friends’ Tweets: 40.9% | Maintaining friendships: 24.6% | |||
| Self-deprecating: 22.7% | A fulfilling life: 27.7% | |||
| Report-related: 14.7% | Others: 12.0% | |||
| Corona-related anxiety: 4.0% | Corona-related information: 3.3% | |||
| Job hunting information: 2.9% | Do not post: 24.3% | |||
| Twitter post frequency | Almost daily: 42.5% | Several times per week: 15.9% | ||
| One time per week: 11.3% | One time per month: 7.8% | Hardly: 22.5% | ||
(1) Items that allow multiple responses
(2) 24.3% of respondents did not have any public posts. Therefore, the maximum percentage of content posted was 75.7%