A Comparative Study of the Need Hierarchy Between Real and Virtual Environments

摘要

The Virtual Environment is composed by many elements, and it brings many benefits. Beside it, we also developed much in the digital and mobile learning fields, and we hope to construct even more powerful tools to advance further human learning. However, is everything positive for kids to contact with virtual environment? We should face this advancement carefully. Perhaps Virtual environments may eventually subvert the social system. The present research explored the mental level in hopes to find the evidence about how people get their Hierarchy needs from Virtual Environments, and their identification with Virtual ID and its interaction with others. This research focused on the students whom were born after 1990, so junior high students were selected as sample population. The sampling area is in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, it is located on the East Asia. The sampling adopted two-stage random sampling: one stage was the school, and the other was cluster sampling that focused on classes in each grade. Through the analysis, this research found evidence on the identification with Virtual ID, the Hierarchy Needs in the virtual environment, and social imitation between the virtual and real environment.