互联网嵌入对社会资本的影响研究

信息技术的发展极大改变了人们的生活方式,互联网渗透到人们工作和生活的每个角落,重塑着人们彼此之间的社会网络,同时对个体的社会资本产生潜移默化的影响。本文将嵌入的概念应用到互联网环境中,提出互联网嵌入的概念,通过半结构化访谈、探索性因子分析等步骤开发了具有联系度、匹配度、牺牲感三个维度的量表,并利用对1 98份样本数据的分析,探讨了互联网嵌入对社会资本的影响。研究结果表明,互联网嵌入的匹配度、牺牲感两个维度对社会资本有显著的正向影响。

Impact of Internet Embeddedness on Social Capital

With the rapid development of Internet,it has extremely changed the way individuals connected with others and acquired information from their social network.However,the study on how the Internet impacts on people is still in the ex-ploratory stage.The research proposes the concept of Internet embeddedness to explore the mechanism between Internet em-beddedness and social capital.It also develops a measurement scale on Internet embeddedness,which consists of three di-mensions and eleven measurement issues.By using the sample of 1 98 questionnaires,the empirical findings show that fit and sacrifice,two dimensions of Internet embeddedness,have positive impact on social capital.