INTERNET USE AMONG YOUNG AND OLDER ADULTS: RELATION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING

By Yiwei Chen, Anna Persson. 2002

191 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Promoting older adults’ well-being through Internet training and use (2007, background): “Chen and Persson (2002) found that Internet use among older people tended to be associated with greater sense of well-being, contrary to the then-claimed negative relationship between Internet usage and several psychological factors.”
• Computer use by older adults: A multi-disciplinary review (2010, result): “In some of the cases where positive impacts were not found, researchers indicated that was likely a result of ‘‘ceiling effects” of the measures (Chen & Persson, 2002; White et al., 1999, 2002), meaning that participants had relatively high scores on the measures prior to the intervention and as a…”
• Internet Use and Psychological Well-being: A Meta-Analysis (2009, unknown): “To address the issue of sample age, Chen and Persson 24 examined the age effect of Internet use on loneliness for 178 young adults with a mean age of 19.8 years and a group of 218 old adults with a mean age of 75.6 years.”