Research instrument

The aim of the questionnaire is to get the information that allows us on the one hand to differentiate the respondents by their internet exploitation habits and on the other hand to analyze how different groups vary in their sociability. Social-demographical items included in the end will help us to analyze both the internet usage and sociability indicators more thoroughly.
The questionnaire elaborated to collect the data needed for empirical testing of our hypotheses includes first the items for classifying individuals into groups according to intensity and purposes the internet is used for. In the first part there belong to items which measure following aspects:
- How often/how much the respondents use the Internet?
- For what purposes the respondents use the Internet?
- Where the respondents use the Internet?
Second there are items that are supposed to measure also some more subjective aspects connected to the use of Internet meant to give information on possible advances and dangers connected to the Internet. There are included indicators on persons evaluations on the Internet measured as following aspects:
- How needed is the Internet considered to be for the respondents personally (for people generally)?
- How effective is the Internet considered to be for different purposes?
- Do the respondents consider Internet to be dangerous in respect of peoples and/or their own sociability?
Third concept operationalised in our questionnaire is sociability. The research instrument comprises items which measure:
- How social the respondents are (with whom and how intensively they interact)
- How they prefer to interact with different people in their lives