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Effects of SNS on Social and Emotional Well-being of Older Adults in Korea : SNS활용이 한국 노인의 사회 및 정서적 안녕에 미치는 효과
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- Authors
- Advisor
- Sowon Hahn
- Major
- 사회과학대학 심리학과
- Issue Date
- 2018-08
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 대학원
- Description
- 학위논문 (석사)-- 서울대학교 대학원 : 사회과학대학 심리학과, 2018. 8. Sowon Hahn.
- Abstract
- Advances in information and communications technology (ICT)
have potential to increase social contacts in later life. However, the possible
consequences of using ICT devices on mental health or successful aging of
older adults still remain controversial. The purpose of this study was to
examine the effect of smartphone applications use on social and emotional
well-being of older adults. We investigated the relationship between
individual characteristics of participants and frequency of smartphone
application use, and compared social network expansion and depression
level between low and high users of a social networking service (SNS)
application, KakaoTalk. We recruited community-dwelling older adults (N
= 107, Mage = 68.57, SDage = 6.12) and measured the actual use of
smartphone applications using an application tracker, App-Logger (Park,
Hyun, Hahn, & Suh, 2018). We collected digital performance scores,
indexes of technological, physical, and cognitive variables as well. Results
showed that KakaoTalk was the most used application among other
applications (including default ones like calls or messages). High users of
KakaoTalk reported of making more social relationships in both private and
public networks than low users. High users on average reported more
instances of depressive feelings than low users of KakaoTalk but not as
much as to be diagnosed with depression. Additionally, periods of Internet a
smartphone use, digital performance, processing speed were found
significantly higher in high users.
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- English
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