Some perspectives on compensatory education and inequality

Does internet use promote mental health among middle-aged and older adults in China?

“…Unexpectedly, life satisfaction partially suppressed the effect of Internet use on depression and partially mediated the effect of Internet use on literacy and mathematical numeracy. The reason for the above effect may be that (1) Internet use blurs the class cognition of middle-aged and older adults’ groups through reference objects and online language, which makes them feel relatively deprived in social comparison, reduces their subjective class identity ( Senik, 2011 ; Feng and Liu, 2022 ), and affects their lives ( Austin et al, 1977 ); (2) The “risk amplification effect” and “replacement trauma effect” of the Internet will affect users’ social risk perception ( Xu and Lai, 2021 ), resulting in negative social psychological effects to a certain extent ( Schiffrin, 2015 ; Gimpelson and Treisman, 2018 ); (3) Internet use may also reduce the social scale of middle-aged and older adults ( Senik, 2011 ) and reduce social trust ( Sabatini and Sarracino, 2017 ), resulting in low life satisfaction. And lower life satisfaction tends to imply greater perceived stress, which predisposes to higher depression levels and predisposes respondents to demonstrate high levels of concentration and concentration on literacy-test and math-test ( Strauss and Allen, 2009 ; Schücker et al, 2013 ), resulting in higher scores.…”