title: Comparison of human anxiety based on different cultural backgrounds.
abstract: This work conceptualizes human behavior on the Internet. The study was conducted with 10 university participants representing two different cultural backgrounds, Asian and Western. The participants were asked to visit any Web page on the Internet for 15 minutes, for 30 minutes, and for 1 hour. The results showed that participants displayed no signs of anxiousness during the 15-minute task and very little anxiousness during the 30-minute task. Western participants showed overall more anxiousness than Asian participants. However, all participants showed anxiousness during the 1-hour task. Data on comparative human anxiety were collected on the basis of a literature review of social fun, online belonging, and community on the Internet. Only the limited set of data of the participant is discussed in this article.
authors: Department of Information Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland. s.k.kalwar@gmail.com
authors: Santosh Kumar
authors: SK
authors: Kalwar
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000145:classification / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D001208:Asia; D001292:Attitude to Computers / Q000208:ethnology*; D001519:Behavior; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D019366:Western World