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Technophobia as emerging risk factor in aging: Investigation on computer anxiety dimension
Digital innovation changed the daily living impacting Quality of Life of individuals. Our study was focused on adult and elder behavioural approach to the technology. Out study aimed to investigate the impact of technology use in not digital native in order to investigate the behavioural degree of a...
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PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7270636/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32529087 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/hpr.2020.8207 |
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author | Di Giacomo, Dina Guerra, Federica Perilli, Enrico Ranieri, Jessica |
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description | Digital innovation changed the daily living impacting Quality of Life of individuals. Our study was focused on adult and elder behavioural approach to the technology. Out study aimed to investigate the impact of technology use in not digital native in order to investigate the behavioural degree of adaptation. An observational study was conducted on adult and old subjects (age range 50–67 years) measuring computer anxiety and technology use ability variables identifying the indexes for technophobia risk in digital living. Not digital native subjects and more older ones appeared being influenced by technophobia features because of feeling themselves as inadequate in the management of technology. Oneway ANOVA and then Bonferroni’s post-hoc analysis showed that non-autonomous (p<0.01), low-frequency (p<0.01), and feelingneed- for-help users (p<0.01) had higher levels of computer anxiety. No significant effect was in gender distribution. Finally, social networking seems related better use of technology and lower anxiety for digital solutions. Our findings highlight technophobia as a possible new risk factor for not digital native because it can affect their daily life through lower adherence to digital solutions; rather than aging successfully, they could develop fragile ageing. More, they seemed inadequate to use the digital solutions for better living in aging. |
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spelling | pubmed-72706362020-06-10 Technophobia as emerging risk factor in aging: Investigation on computer anxiety dimension Di Giacomo, Dina Guerra, Federica Perilli, Enrico Ranieri, Jessica Health Psychol Res Article Digital innovation changed the daily living impacting Quality of Life of individuals. Our study was focused on adult and elder behavioural approach to the technology. Out study aimed to investigate the impact of technology use in not digital native in order to investigate the behavioural degree of adaptation. An observational study was conducted on adult and old subjects (age range 50–67 years) measuring computer anxiety and technology use ability variables identifying the indexes for technophobia risk in digital living. Not digital native subjects and more older ones appeared being influenced by technophobia features because of feeling themselves as inadequate in the management of technology. Oneway ANOVA and then Bonferroni’s post-hoc analysis showed that non-autonomous (p<0.01), low-frequency (p<0.01), and feelingneed- for-help users (p<0.01) had higher levels of computer anxiety. No significant effect was in gender distribution. Finally, social networking seems related better use of technology and lower anxiety for digital solutions. Our findings highlight technophobia as a possible new risk factor for not digital native because it can affect their daily life through lower adherence to digital solutions; rather than aging successfully, they could develop fragile ageing. More, they seemed inadequate to use the digital solutions for better living in aging. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2020-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7270636/ /pubmed/32529087 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/hpr.2020.8207 Text en ©Copyright: the Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (by-nc 4.0) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Article Di Giacomo, Dina Guerra, Federica Perilli, Enrico Ranieri, Jessica Technophobia as emerging risk factor in aging: Investigation on computer anxiety dimension |
title | Technophobia as emerging risk factor in aging: Investigation on computer anxiety dimension |
title_full | Technophobia as emerging risk factor in aging: Investigation on computer anxiety dimension |
title_fullStr | Technophobia as emerging risk factor in aging: Investigation on computer anxiety dimension |
title_full_unstemmed | Technophobia as emerging risk factor in aging: Investigation on computer anxiety dimension |
title_short | Technophobia as emerging risk factor in aging: Investigation on computer anxiety dimension |
title_sort | technophobia as emerging risk factor in aging: investigation on computer anxiety dimension |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7270636/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32529087 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/hpr.2020.8207 |
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