Mobile phone use before and during the COVID-19 pandemic – a panel study of older adults in seven countries

IF 3.1 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
S. Taipale, Tomi Oinas, Loredana Ivan, D. Rosenberg
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The aim of this study was to investigate the changes in older adults’ mobile phone use from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic. The media displacement and digital divide approaches served as the theoretical frameworks of the study. The data were drawn from the 2018 and 2020 waves of the Aging + Communication + Technology cross-national longitudinal panel study. The sample consisted of older Internet users, aged 62 to 96 (in 2018), from Austria, Canada, Finland, Israel, the Netherlands, Romania, and Spain, who participated in both waves (N = 4,398). Latent class analysis and latent transition analysis with multinomial regression models were the main methods applied to the data. With regard to the findings, three mobile phone function use profiles—Narrow Use, Medium Use, and Broad Use—were identified from the data. Lower age, being married, higher income, and place of residence (in 2018) predicted belonging to the three profiles, while country differences in the prevalence of the profiles were substantial. Between 2018 and 2020, transition from one profile to another was relatively rare but typically toward the “Broad Use” category. Profile transitions were most common in Romania, while stability was highest in Finland, Israel, and Canada. In addition, gender, age, marital status, and place of residence predicted the likelihood of changing from one profile to another between 2018 and 2020. The results suggest that older adults’ mobile phone function use is relatively stable over a two-year time span. While new mobile phone functions are adopted, they seem to augment the spectrum of mobile usage rather than displace older similar functionalities. In addition, demographic, socioeconomic, and country-level digital divides, although slightly modified over time, remain significant among older adults.
新冠肺炎大流行之前和期间的手机使用情况——一项针对七个国家老年人的小组研究
这项研究的目的是调查从新冠肺炎大流行前到大流行期间老年人使用手机的变化。媒体位移和数字鸿沟方法是本研究的理论框架。数据来自2018年和2020年的老龄化浪潮 + 表达 + 技术跨国家纵向小组研究。样本包括来自奥地利、加拿大、芬兰、以色列、荷兰、罗马尼亚和西班牙的年龄在62岁至96岁之间的老年互联网用户(2018年),他们参与了这两次浪潮(N = 4398)。潜类分析和多项式回归模型的潜转移分析是应用于数据的主要方法。关于这些发现,从数据中确定了三种手机功能使用情况——狭义使用、中等使用和广泛使用。预测年龄较低、已婚、收入较高和居住地(2018年)属于这三种情况,而这些情况的流行率在国家之间存在很大差异。在2018年至2020年期间,从一种简介过渡到另一种简介相对罕见,但通常是向“广泛使用”类别过渡。轮廓转换在罗马尼亚最为常见,而芬兰、以色列和加拿大的稳定性最高。此外,性别、年龄、婚姻状况和居住地预测了2018年至2020年间从一种情况转变为另一种情况的可能性。研究结果表明,在两年的时间跨度内,老年人的手机功能使用相对稳定。虽然采用了新的手机功能,但它们似乎扩大了手机的使用范围,而不是取代旧的类似功能。此外,人口、社会经济和国家层面的数字鸿沟虽然随着时间的推移略有变化,但在老年人中仍然很显著。
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CiteScore
9.40
自引率
16.30%
发文量
36
期刊介绍: Mobile Media & Communication is a peer-reviewed forum for international, interdisciplinary academic research on the dynamic field of mobile media and communication. Mobile Media & Communication draws on a wide and continually renewed range of disciplines, engaging broadly in the concept of mobility itself.
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