Empowering the elderly population through ICT-based activities An empirical study of older adults in Korea
- Authors
- Hur, Mann Hyung
- Issue Date
- 2016
- Publisher
- EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
- Keywords
- Behaviour change; Self-efficacy; Information seeking behaviour; IT capability
- Citation
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & PEOPLE, v.29, no.2, pp 318 - 333
- Pages
- 16
- Journal Title
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & PEOPLE
- Volume
- 29
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 318
- End Page
- 333
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/8711
- DOI
- 10.1108/ITP-03-2015-0052
- ISSN
- 0959-3845
1758-5813
- Abstract
- Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to focus on elderly people who have adopted Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and participated in ICT-based activities, and explore variables associated with their individual and collective empowerment by using data collected by a questionnaire survey. Design/methodology/approach - A set of 14 questions was developed to measure older adults' perceived psychological empowerment. A factor analysis was conducted to condense 14 individual variables into several large categories. Finally, a set of multiple regression analyses was employed to identify variables associated with the elderly's individual and collective empowerment. Findings - Three factors, including a sense of meaning; competence/self-determination; and collective empowerment were extracted from the 14 questions. Multiple regression models revealed that elderly empowerment is not a matter of social skills, ICT skills, or complementary skills, but is more likely to result from their being interested in ICT and ICT-based activities. Learning activities in ICT-based activities and participation frequency were found to be predictors of both meaning and competence/self-determination dimensions. Research limitations/implications - The major finding of this study concerns the development of a measure that assesses three factors of empowerment in older adults, i.e., sense of meaning, competence/self-determination, and collective empowerment. This study represents an initial step in establishing the measure, and therefore, further work is needed to establish its psychometric properties, particularly external validity. Originality/value - This study is one of the first studies to focus on older people's empowerment construct and its relation to ICT-based activities.
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