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Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic required people to adapt rapidly to the digital transformation of society for social survival, which highlighted the divide between those who can and cannot digitalize. Previous studies investigated factors promoting adaptation to digitalization; however, outcomes from adaptati...

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Autores principales: Hamamoto, Yumi, Honda, Akio, Miura, Naoki, Tanabe-Ishibashi, Azumi, Oba, Kentaro, Ishibashi, Ryo, Sugiura, Motoaki
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10473088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37663345
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1230192
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author Hamamoto, Yumi
Honda, Akio
Miura, Naoki
Tanabe-Ishibashi, Azumi
Oba, Kentaro
Ishibashi, Ryo
Sugiura, Motoaki
author_facet Hamamoto, Yumi
Honda, Akio
Miura, Naoki
Tanabe-Ishibashi, Azumi
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Sugiura, Motoaki
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description The COVID-19 pandemic required people to adapt rapidly to the digital transformation of society for social survival, which highlighted the divide between those who can and cannot digitalize. Previous studies investigated factors promoting adaptation to digitalization; however, outcomes from adaptation to a digitalized society have not been sorted into a parsimonious model, even though there should be several multifaceted outcomes (e.g., usefulness, economic profit, and social outcome), each of which is promoted by different factors. If the effects of individual background factors can be revealed, including the technical-environment and survival-relevant personality in relation to each outcome, it would help in the creation of a society where more people play an active role by adapting to digitalization. This study aimed to construct such a model by identifying major outcomes gained in a digitalized society and investigating individual factors that contribute to the degree of gain of each of these outcomes. Five dimensions were identified by online surveys and factor analysis: Socialization (outcomes derived from new social connections created online), Space–time (freedom from time and space constraints), Economics (monetary outcome by using digital services), and Information (ease and amount of acquisition of information) were the positive outcomes, whereas Loneliness (feelings of not being able to keep up with digitization) was identified as a negative outcome. We determined that technical-environmental factors (e.g., familiarity with digital techniques and the amount of money that can be used for digitalization) facilitated gain in four positive outcomes. Notably, leadership and conscientiousness facilitated the Socialization gain while etiquette suppressed it. These factors’ effects would reflect the importance of a personality trait prioritizing construction and maintenance of social relationships. This study implies that material outcomes (i.e., Space–time, Economics, and Information) are promoted by technical-environmental support, whereas social outcomes may additionally require motivation and a positive attitude for purposeful social engagement.
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spelling pubmed-104730882023-09-02 Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic Hamamoto, Yumi Honda, Akio Miura, Naoki Tanabe-Ishibashi, Azumi Oba, Kentaro Ishibashi, Ryo Sugiura, Motoaki Front Psychol Psychology The COVID-19 pandemic required people to adapt rapidly to the digital transformation of society for social survival, which highlighted the divide between those who can and cannot digitalize. Previous studies investigated factors promoting adaptation to digitalization; however, outcomes from adaptation to a digitalized society have not been sorted into a parsimonious model, even though there should be several multifaceted outcomes (e.g., usefulness, economic profit, and social outcome), each of which is promoted by different factors. If the effects of individual background factors can be revealed, including the technical-environment and survival-relevant personality in relation to each outcome, it would help in the creation of a society where more people play an active role by adapting to digitalization. This study aimed to construct such a model by identifying major outcomes gained in a digitalized society and investigating individual factors that contribute to the degree of gain of each of these outcomes. Five dimensions were identified by online surveys and factor analysis: Socialization (outcomes derived from new social connections created online), Space–time (freedom from time and space constraints), Economics (monetary outcome by using digital services), and Information (ease and amount of acquisition of information) were the positive outcomes, whereas Loneliness (feelings of not being able to keep up with digitization) was identified as a negative outcome. We determined that technical-environmental factors (e.g., familiarity with digital techniques and the amount of money that can be used for digitalization) facilitated gain in four positive outcomes. Notably, leadership and conscientiousness facilitated the Socialization gain while etiquette suppressed it. These factors’ effects would reflect the importance of a personality trait prioritizing construction and maintenance of social relationships. This study implies that material outcomes (i.e., Space–time, Economics, and Information) are promoted by technical-environmental support, whereas social outcomes may additionally require motivation and a positive attitude for purposeful social engagement. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10473088/ /pubmed/37663345 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1230192 Text en Copyright © 2023 Hamamoto, Honda, Miura, Tanabe-Ishibashi, Oba, Ishibashi and Sugiura. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Hamamoto, Yumi
Honda, Akio
Miura, Naoki
Tanabe-Ishibashi, Azumi
Oba, Kentaro
Ishibashi, Ryo
Sugiura, Motoaki
Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic
title Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic
title_full Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic
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title_short Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during covid-19 pandemic
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10473088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37663345
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1230192
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