Information and Communication Technology Use, Social Support, and Life Satisfaction among Korean Immigrant Elders

Jun, Jung Sim; Galambos, Colleen; Lee, Kyoung Hag

doi:10.1080/01488376.2020.1848969

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“…Technology Anxiety is one of the most prominent features of stereotypes of technology use in older adults, and it could be easily extended to apply in smartphone acceptance. In accordance with prior studies [ 1 , 16 , 32 ], we postulate a negative relationship between Technology Anxiety and Perceived Ease of Use , as well as between Technology Anxiety and Perceived Usefulness :…”

Section: Model and Hypotheses Development Of Smartphone Usesupporting

confidence: 90%

“…By the end of 2020, 99.2 per cent of internet access devices were smartphones, and the number of users exceeded 932 million, 22.8 per cent of whom were aged 50 and above [ 8 ]. Smartphones cannot only become powerful assistive technologies to help them maintain independence, social participation, and sense of worth in the face of declining physical conditions or limited capabilities [ 2 , 9 , 10 ], but also offer new and empowering opportunities to improve well-being and quality of life [ 1 , 11 ].…”

Section: Smartphone Use and Digital Divide In Older Adultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Social Support refers to the provision by social networks of psychological and material resources to strengthen one’s ability to cope with technological stress and problems [ 1 , 11 , 33 ]. According to previous studies on the adoption of ICT by older adults, it is usually provided by family members and peers [ 28 , 34 , 35 ], in the form of instrumental support, informational support, emotional support, and appraisal support [ 36 ].…”

Section: Model and Hypotheses Development Of Smartphone Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to previous studies on the adoption of ICT by older adults, it is usually provided by family members and peers [ 28 , 34 , 35 ], in the form of instrumental support, informational support, emotional support, and appraisal support [ 36 ]. Norms and values that exist in Social Support create social influence or facilitate environments that affect the attitudes and behavioural intentions in technology acceptance [ 1 , 37 ]. Based on these, the present study proposes that Social Support has a positive impact on Perceived Ease of Use , Attitude , and Behavioural Intention :…”

Section: Model and Hypotheses Development Of Smartphone Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Today, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is playing an essential role in people’s daily lives, including the lives of older adults [ 1 ]. In the last two decades, the capabilities and functions of ICT have significantly advanced, particularly in terms of mobility and availability [ 2 ].…”

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In recent years, an increasing number of studies have addressed the older adults' Information and Communication Technology acceptance, the majority of which concentrate on the use of computers and the internet. As smartphone use becomes further integrated into older adults’ daily lives, it is important to investigate how perceptions about and use of smartphones intersect. This study (1) proposes an extended Technology Acceptance Model and tests the relationships between Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, Attitude, Behavioural Intention, Self-efficacy, Technology Anxiety, and Social Support in older adults’ smartphone use by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA); and (2) analyses the specific differences between primary, medium, and advanced use level groups in each construct by Q-cluster and ANOVAs. We conduct a community-based survey with a sample of 1,006 older adults in East China. The data demonstrate that the extended model offered a good explanation of smartphone acceptance among the older adults, and the groups belong to different use levels show significant difference in all constructs. The findings indicate that digital divide is objectively inevitable in smartphone use, but the older adults are extremely diverse groups that do not uniformly conform to technology averse stereotypes.

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Using SOR framework to explore the driving factors of older adults smartphone use behavior

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At a time when the population is aging and the digital divide among older adults is becoming increasingly prominent, the research on the smartphone use behavior of the older adult in China is slightly insufficient. Therefore, this study aims to develop a smartphone acceptance model for older adults in China to predict the factors of their behavioral intention to use smartphones. Using Stimulus-organism-response (SOR) theory as the framework, planned behavior theory, self-efficacy theory and technology acceptance model as the theoretical basis, and employed a mixed quantitative and qualitative research approach to analyze the data from 244 older adults using structural equation modeling. The results show that technology anxiety, subjective norms, self-efficacy, perceived usefulness, facilitating conditions, and perceived ease of use had significant effects on the behavioral intention smartphones among older adults. In addition, perceived usefulness was directly influenced by subjective norms and perceived ease of use, facilitating conditions significantly influenced perceived ease of use and self-efficacy, and subjective norms and self-efficacy significantly affect technology anxiety. This study expanded the applicability of SOR framework, further expanded the technology acceptance model, and enriched the theory of smart phone use behavior of older adults users. The results of this study provide a valuable theoretical framework for the study on older adults users’ behaviors and have implications for the design and marketing of smartphones with high acceptancy from older adults.

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Information and Communication Technology Use, Social Support, and Life Satisfaction among Korean Immigrant Elders

Cited by 15 publications

References 46 publications

Staying connected: smartphone acceptance and use level differences of older adults in China

Staying connected: smartphone acceptance and use level differences of older adults in China

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Using SOR framework to explore the driving factors of older adults smartphone use behavior

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