Correlates of internet use among older adults
Diana Devine, et al. recruited A sample of 898 US adults ranging from 18 to 76 years of age through Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform to complete the Internet Addiction Test and key measures of affect, disposition, and cognitive function. Results founds that:
• Older adults experience lower levels of internet addiction relative to younger adults.
• Relatively mild levels of internet addiction are associated with suboptimal affective, dispositional, and cognitive factors.
• Creative achievement increases with higher levels of internet addiction.
Kun Wang and Kefentse Kubanga studied A total of 1117 African American older adults aged over 50 from the 2016 Wave of the Health Retirement Study aiming to compare internet use among African American older adults by gender and age group. Results found that that education and cognition were the only two significant factors pertinent to internet use among the old-old. As such, practitioners should consider these gender and age differences when promoting computer/internet use among older African Americans, as well as in the design and implementation of more gender-specific interventions.
References:
- Wang K; Kubanga K. Correlates of internet use among African American older adults: gender and age differences. International Journal of Population Studies 2020; 6(2). Doi: 10.18063/ijps.v6i2.1226
