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Awareness of age-related change is associated with attitudes toward technology and technology skills among older adults

Despite much research in the context of aging and technology, the role of Views on aging (VoA) for differences in technology use and attitudes among older adults has rarely been studied so far. This study focuses on the associations between a multidimensional measure of VoA and technology use, techn...

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Autores principales: Schlomann, Anna, Memmer, Nicole, Wahl, Hans-Werner
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9505520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36160527
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.905043
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description Despite much research in the context of aging and technology, the role of Views on aging (VoA) for differences in technology use and attitudes among older adults has rarely been studied so far. This study focuses on the associations between a multidimensional measure of VoA and technology use, technology skills, and attitudes toward technology in a sample of older adults (n = 369, age range: 65–93 years, 48.2% male). We apply the concept of Awareness of age-related change (AARC) to examine the role of positive (AARC-Gains) and negative (AARC-Losses) self-perceptions of aging. Bivariate and multivariate regression analyses were conducted. The results showed positive associations of AARC-Gains with technology skills and technology attitudes. For AARC-Losses, we identified negative associations with technology skills, technology attitudes as well as general technology use. In contrast, associations between subjective age (SA) and all technology-related measures were non-significant. The results stress the importance to consider multidimensional measures of VoA to gain a better understanding of the associations between an individuals’ experiencing of own aging processes and technology adoption. More research is needed to determine the stability of these findings in other samples and for other kinds of technology use and attitudes.
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spelling pubmed-95055202022-09-24 Awareness of age-related change is associated with attitudes toward technology and technology skills among older adults Schlomann, Anna Memmer, Nicole Wahl, Hans-Werner Front Psychol Psychology Despite much research in the context of aging and technology, the role of Views on aging (VoA) for differences in technology use and attitudes among older adults has rarely been studied so far. This study focuses on the associations between a multidimensional measure of VoA and technology use, technology skills, and attitudes toward technology in a sample of older adults (n = 369, age range: 65–93 years, 48.2% male). We apply the concept of Awareness of age-related change (AARC) to examine the role of positive (AARC-Gains) and negative (AARC-Losses) self-perceptions of aging. Bivariate and multivariate regression analyses were conducted. The results showed positive associations of AARC-Gains with technology skills and technology attitudes. For AARC-Losses, we identified negative associations with technology skills, technology attitudes as well as general technology use. In contrast, associations between subjective age (SA) and all technology-related measures were non-significant. The results stress the importance to consider multidimensional measures of VoA to gain a better understanding of the associations between an individuals’ experiencing of own aging processes and technology adoption. More research is needed to determine the stability of these findings in other samples and for other kinds of technology use and attitudes. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9505520/ /pubmed/36160527 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.905043 Text en Copyright © 2022 Schlomann, Memmer and Wahl. 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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title Awareness of age-related change is associated with attitudes toward technology and technology skills among older adults
title_full Awareness of age-related change is associated with attitudes toward technology and technology skills among older adults
title_fullStr Awareness of age-related change is associated with attitudes toward technology and technology skills among older adults
title_full_unstemmed Awareness of age-related change is associated with attitudes toward technology and technology skills among older adults
title_short Awareness of age-related change is associated with attitudes toward technology and technology skills among older adults
title_sort awareness of age-related change is associated with attitudes toward technology and technology skills among older adults
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9505520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36160527
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.905043
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