About - TIGPS

Background and Purpose

“Taiwan i-Generation Panel Study” is a research project supported by the National Science and Technology Council. Over the past two decades, the development and changes in Taiwan's digital society, as well as the extensive impact of digital tool usage on the lives of digital generation adolescents, have been significant. This study is based on the framework of digital ecological systems theory and proposes eight interrelated themes. It plans to conduct long-term tracking over several years to explore the self-concept of Taiwan's digital generation adolescents, their daily lives and behavioral patterns, family and parent-child interaction patterns, parental involvement and parent-teacher alliances, peer and social networks, school context and student well-being, campus digital experiences and academic achievement, as well as online digital reading and school-based reading strategy instruction.

Research Framework and Issues

This research project consists of eight sub-projects (adolescents’ self-concept, daily lives and behavioral patterns, family and parent-child interaction patterns, parental involvement and parent-teacher alliances, peer and social networks, school context and student well-being, campus digital experiences and academic achievement, and online digital reading and school-based reading strategy instruction), with the adolescent microsystem as the core, exploring the connections between this microsystem and its surrounding microsystems and mediating systems.

Participants and Methods

The participants in this project include junior high school students and their families (parents and siblings aged 12-18), mentors and subject teachers, and school authorities (principal or academic affairs director). Except for the school authorities, all survey participants will complete the surveys online.