Internet use and willingness to participate in garbage classification: an investigation of Chinese residents

Ma, Wanglin; Zhu, Zhongkun

doi:10.1080/13504851.2020.1781766

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“…Our work is related to the literature on the effect of internet use and the determinants of elderly's mental health. Previous studies have investigated how the use of internet may affect the adoption of an environmentally friendly behavior ( 54 , 55 ), household welfare and wellbeing ( 56 ), and agricultural production and marketing performance ( 57 , 58 ). Some other studies have made effort to understand the diversity of elderly's mental health ( 11 , 42 , 59 , 60 ).…”

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The temperature of internet: Internet use and depression of the elderly in China

Guo

Feng

Liu

2022

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionDepression has become one of the most prevalent mental illnesses affecting the elderly in aging countries, i. e., in countries of the world whose population is slowly aging. It has become an important topic for scientists and policymakers to analyze how best to improve the elderly's mental health and save them from depression. The aim of this paper was to investigate whether and to what extent internet use may affect depression in the elderly. The heterogeneous effects of internet use on the elderly's depression across age, gender, and occupation were also investigated.MethodsThe data used in the present study were gathered from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study that was conducted in 2018. The propensity score matching technique and the endogenous switch regression model were employed in this study to address potential endogeneity caused by both observed and unobserved factors.ResultsThe results of the present study show that the elderly who are relatively young, male, well educated, live in an urban area, or have a small family are more likely to use the internet. The elderly who have healthy eyes or good eyesight, those who are not employed in the agricultural sector, or those who are retired, and those who are not eligible to receive any subsistence allowance or drink wine have a higher probability of using the internet. We also find that internet use significantly reduces the elderly's depression status by 3.370 points, which is roughly equivalent to a reduction of 37.19%. Heterogeneity analysis on internet use reveals that the health effect is particularly effective for agricultural workers, female, or the older elderly.ConclusionThe results of the present study highlight the significant welfare effects brought about by the development of internet infrastructure. To improve the mental health of the elderly, the government should encourage them to adopt the internet. In particular, the needs of the elderly who are older, female, or have agricultural work should be paid more attention to motivate them to use the internet more to alleviate depression.

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The temperature of internet: Internet use and depression of the elderly in China

Guo

Feng

Liu

2022

Front. Public Health

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“…Han and Xu found that social media use can strengthen individuals' pro-environmental behavior through interpersonal communication [15]. Furthermore, Ma and Zhu revealed that internet use positively influences Chinese residents' willingness to participate in garbage sorting [16]. While none of these studies focused on the garbage sorting intention of adolescents, according to their findings, we can assume that adolescent social media use may also positively affect their garbage sorting behavior.…”

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Adolescents’ Social Media Use and Their Voluntary Garbage Sorting Intention: A Sequential Mediation Model

Yang

2021

IJERPH

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Encouraging adolescents to sort garbage is vital for the sustainable development of the ecological environment. This study investigates the relationship between adolescents’ social media use and their garbage sorting intention. A survey, in both online and paper-based versions, was distributed in 2020 in Shanghai and a total number of 605 valid responses were obtained. This study supports the proposed sequential mediation model, indicating that adolescents’ social media use increased their garbage sorting intention via the serial mediation effect of objective and subjective knowledge and the perceived importance of garbage sorting. The current study and its findings provide important insights into the link between adolescents’ social media use and their garbage sorting intention, particularly its underlying mechanism, by distinguishing knowledge into two specific types and introducing perceived importance into the conceptual model. Practical implications for improving adolescents’ intention to sort garbage are also discussed.

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“…In examining the effects of farmers' smartphone use on willingness to adopt DPDM, we obtain biased results by simply attributing the differences in outcomes between the treatment group (i.e., smartphone users) and the control group (smartphone nonusers) to treatment. Previous research on ICT (e.g., Internet, smartphone) adoption suggests that farmers are not randomly assigned to ICT user and nonuser groups (Hübler & Hartje, 2016; Leng et al, 2020; Ma & Zhu, 2020; Mwololo et al, 2019). Moreover, some of the determinants of ICT adoption can be observed from field surveys (e.g., age, education, and training participation), while others cannot be observed (e.g., innate ability and personal preference) (Cui et al, 2016; Ma & Zhu, 2020).…”

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Smartphone use and willingness to adopt digital pest and disease management: Evidence from litchi growers in rural China

Cai

2022

Agribusiness

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Internet use and willingness to participate in garbage classification: an investigation of Chinese residents

Cited by 34 publications

References 16 publications

The temperature of internet: Internet use and depression of the elderly in China

The temperature of internet: Internet use and depression of the elderly in China

Adolescents’ Social Media Use and Their Voluntary Garbage Sorting Intention: A Sequential Mediation Model

Smartphone use and willingness to adopt digital pest and disease management: Evidence from litchi growers in rural China

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