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affective experiences between male users and female users. There is also no significant difference
(Sig.=0.523) between groups of people with different levels of education. But we find differences
(Sig.=0.001) in the affective experiences between users of different ages. These differences are
particularly significant in four specific affections of sadness, anger, interest and happiness (see
Figure 1).

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Figure 1. Differences of four affections of sadness, anger, happiness and interest among the different age groups.

In the group of the 15-20 years old, 12.5% of users have experienced the affection of sadness.
As the age grows, the number of users that have experienced the affection gradually decreases
(8.1% of the 21-25 years old group, 4.7% of the 26-30 years old group, 4.1% of the 31-40
years old group, and 0% of the 40-50 years old group and the 50-60 years old group). In the
groups of the 15-20 years old and the 41-50 years old, there are the highest proportions of users
that have experienced the affection of anger, which are 12.5% and 16.7% respectively. However,
in the groups of the 21-25 years old, the 26-30 years old and the 31-40 years old, there are
respectively 9.3%, 8.5% and 7.1% of users that have experienced the affection of anger, and the
difference is not significant. In the groups of the 21-25 years old, the 26-30 years old and the
31-40 years old, there are respectively 15.1%, 14% and 8.2% of users that have experienced
the affection of interest; in the other three age groups, there are no users that have experienced
the affection. This suggests that users of the 21-30 years old group experience more affection
of interest. In all the affective experience, happiness has the biggest discrepancy. In the group
of the 31-40 years old, there are more than half of the users that have experienced happiness
(52%); but in other age groups, there are only about one-third of users that have experienced
happiness respectively.