Open AccessRazões para usuários com depressão da comunidade slowly se envolverem com informação tecnológica
Author(s) -
Everton da Silva Camillo,
Marta Lígia Pomim Valentim
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
página4saandb/páginas a and b
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2183-6671
pISSN - 0873-5670
DOI - 10.21747/21836671/pag14a2
Subject(s) - categorical variable , the internet , psychology , mental health , depression (economics) , virtual community , social psychology , computer science , world wide web , mathematics , psychiatry , statistics , economics , macroeconomics
This research aimed to investigate the reasons for users with depression in the Slowly community to get involved with technological information, starting from two hypotheses: null (H0) and alternative (H1). The survey data were collected by accessing the public testimonials page registered on Slowly's official website, indexed under the term depression. Regarding the methodological procedures, the Categorical Analysis technique of the Content Analysis method was applied. The hypotheses were tested using the chi-square test. The first hypothesis (H0) was not rejected, because users with depression in the Slowly community do not wish to obtain only sentimental support from other members of the community. It concludes with the expectation that future studies shall investigate solutions for people with depression and those more likely to relate to others via the Internet to achieve more life quality. It is also desirable that further studies can investigate the mental health of regular users in virtual/online communities, in order to verify whether there are behavioral-depressive trends in users who are intensely involved with the use and production of technological information in virtual spaces.