Understanding older adults' Internet use and psychological benefits: The moderating role of digital skills.
This study investigated how older adults' informational, social, and recreational motives predict their Internet use and life satisfaction. In doing so, we tested how two distinct forms of digital skills—receptive and participatory—affect the ways in which older people fulfil their needs through the...
| Publicado en: | Behaviour & Information Technology Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 60 - 72 |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
| Publicado: |
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2024
|
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=174319662&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 174319662 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 0144929X B6Q jtl: Behaviour & Information Technology issn: 0144929X maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jan2024 vid: 43 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 174319662 160733017 174319662 174319662 10.1080/0144929X.2022.2153082 174319662 ppf: 60 ppct: 12 formats: tig: atl: Understanding older adults' Internet use and psychological benefits: The moderating role of digital skills. aug: au: Yang, Soeun Jang, Jeong-woo affil: Center for Digital Humanities & Computational Social Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea sug: subj: Aging Psychosocial Factors Internet Utilization Computer Literacy Human Needs (Psychology) Personal Satisfaction Psychological Well-Being Human Male Female Aged Middle Age South Korea Funding Source Questionnaires Descriptive Statistics Information Seeking Behavior Summated Rating Scaling Maximum Likelihood Confidence Intervals Motivation Social Participation Aged: 65+ years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Male Female ab: This study investigated how older adults' informational, social, and recreational motives predict their Internet use and life satisfaction. In doing so, we tested how two distinct forms of digital skills—receptive and participatory—affect the ways in which older people fulfil their needs through the Internet as well as the extent to which their Internet use leads to psychological benefits. A total of 200 Internet users in their 60s joined a face-to-face survey. As predicted, the older users' informational, social, and recreational motives predicted their corresponding Internet use and life satisfaction. In particular, participatory skills affected how the use of the Internet predicts life satisfaction, such that only those with moderate or higher participatory skills obtained mental benefits through their Internet use. Lastly, we discussed older adults' online engagement and its impacts on their well-being, with an emphasis on digital competencies. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|