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Susceptibility to Scams in Older Black and White Adults
Previous reports on racial differences in scam susceptibility have yielded mixed findings, and few studies have examined reasons for any observed race differences. Older Black and White participants without dementia (N = 592) from the Minority Aging Research Study and the Rush Memory and Aging Proje...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311557/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34322065 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.685258 |
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author | Han, S. Duke Barnes, Lisa L. Leurgans, Sue Yu, Lei Stewart, Christopher C. Lamar, Melissa Glover, Crystal M. Bennett, David A. Boyle, Patricia A. |
author_facet | Han, S. Duke Barnes, Lisa L. Leurgans, Sue Yu, Lei Stewart, Christopher C. Lamar, Melissa Glover, Crystal M. Bennett, David A. Boyle, Patricia A. |
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description | Previous reports on racial differences in scam susceptibility have yielded mixed findings, and few studies have examined reasons for any observed race differences. Older Black and White participants without dementia (N = 592) from the Minority Aging Research Study and the Rush Memory and Aging Project who completed a susceptibility to scam questionnaire and other measures were matched according to age, education, sex, and global cognition using Mahalanobis distance. In adjusted models, older Black adults were less susceptible to scams than older White adults (Beta = −0.2496, SE = 0.0649, p = 0.0001). Contextual factors did not mediate and affective factors did not moderate this association. Analyses of specific items revealed Black adults had greater knowledge of scam targeting of older adults and were less likely to pick up the phone for unidentified callers. Older Black adults are less susceptible to scams than demographically-matched older White adults, although the reasons remain unknown. |
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spelling | pubmed-83115572021-07-27 Susceptibility to Scams in Older Black and White Adults Han, S. Duke Barnes, Lisa L. Leurgans, Sue Yu, Lei Stewart, Christopher C. Lamar, Melissa Glover, Crystal M. Bennett, David A. Boyle, Patricia A. Front Psychol Psychology Previous reports on racial differences in scam susceptibility have yielded mixed findings, and few studies have examined reasons for any observed race differences. Older Black and White participants without dementia (N = 592) from the Minority Aging Research Study and the Rush Memory and Aging Project who completed a susceptibility to scam questionnaire and other measures were matched according to age, education, sex, and global cognition using Mahalanobis distance. In adjusted models, older Black adults were less susceptible to scams than older White adults (Beta = −0.2496, SE = 0.0649, p = 0.0001). Contextual factors did not mediate and affective factors did not moderate this association. Analyses of specific items revealed Black adults had greater knowledge of scam targeting of older adults and were less likely to pick up the phone for unidentified callers. Older Black adults are less susceptible to scams than demographically-matched older White adults, although the reasons remain unknown. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8311557/ /pubmed/34322065 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.685258 Text en Copyright © 2021 Han, Barnes, Leurgans, Yu, Stewart, Lamar, Glover, Bennett and Boyle. 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. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Han, S. Duke Barnes, Lisa L. Leurgans, Sue Yu, Lei Stewart, Christopher C. Lamar, Melissa Glover, Crystal M. Bennett, David A. Boyle, Patricia A. Susceptibility to Scams in Older Black and White Adults |
title | Susceptibility to Scams in Older Black and White Adults |
title_full | Susceptibility to Scams in Older Black and White Adults |
title_fullStr | Susceptibility to Scams in Older Black and White Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Susceptibility to Scams in Older Black and White Adults |
title_short | Susceptibility to Scams in Older Black and White Adults |
title_sort | susceptibility to scams in older black and white adults |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311557/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34322065 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.685258 |
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