TABLE 2.
Demographics of the research sample.
Variable | Count | % | |
Gender | Male | 183 | 56.0 |
Female | 144 | 44.0 | |
Age | 17 or bellow | 6 | 1.8 |
18–30 | 154 | 47.1 | |
31–40 | 103 | 31.5 | |
41–50 | 60 | 18.3 | |
>51 | 4 | 1.2 | |
Education level | Junior high school | 10 | 3.1 |
Senior high school | 15 | 4.6 | |
Undergraduate | 262 | 80.1 | |
Postgraduate | 40 | 12.2 | |
Monthly income | <2,000 Yuan | 32 | 9.8 |
2,000–3,999 Yuan | 97 | 29.7 | |
4,000–5,999 Yuan | 101 | 30.9 | |
60,000–7,999 Yuan | 71 | 21.7 | |
>≥8,000 Yuan | 26 | 8.0 | |
Occupation | Student | 65 | 19.9 |
Company employee | 93 | 28.4 | |
Employee in public institutions | 84 | 25.7 | |
Civil servant | 33 | 10.1 | |
Self-employed | 38 | 11.6 | |
Retired | 10 | 3.1 | |
Others | 4 | 1.2 | |
Length of use | <6 months | 8 | 2.4 |
>6 months and <1 year | 35 | 10.7 | |
>1 year and <2 years | 124 | 37.9 | |
>2 years and <3 years | 89 | 27.2 | |
>3 years | 71 | 21.7 | |
Average minutes using WeChat per day | <10 min | 86 | 26.3 |
>10 min and <30 min | 101 | 30.9 | |
>30 min and <60 min | 104 | 31.8 | |
>60 min | 36 | 11.0 |