Influence of Demographic Variables on Use
Tests of hypotheses 1–4 were conducted to answer research question 1:
Would demographic variables remain significant predictors of community
network use when psychological and environment factors were also taken
into account? For these tests, all four demographic variables were entered
simultaneously into a hierarchical multiple regression model. Then, alternative
service accessibility was entered into the model. Finally, all four
psychological variables were entered into the model simultaneously in the
third step. The constructed model was expressed in the following regression
equation (1):