a Department of Education and Psychology , The Open University , Ra'anana , Israel.
Aging Ment Health. 2019 Aug;23(8):1025-1030. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2018.1479834. Epub 2018 Nov 26.
The current study aims to examine the effect of technology use on the assessment of subjective age across the adult lifespan, with the assumption that using technology might make older people feel older. One-hundred and fifty-one participants (ages 18-83) assessed their subjective age before and after using familiar and unfamiliar applications on a touchscreen tablet. Subjective age was assessed either by line marking or by numerical response. The oldest participants felt older after the manipulation relative to their pre-manipulation baseline, unlike the youngest participants in the sample. This effect was stronger for the unfamiliar application than for the familiar application. We suggest that using technology evokes stereotype threat. Although this threat does not impair performance, it still changes self perception. These findings could have far-reaching implications for the well-being of older adults in an ever more technological world.
本研究旨在考察技术使用对成年后主观年龄评估的影响，假设使用技术可能会使老年人感到更老。151 名参与者（年龄在 18 岁至 83 岁之间）在触摸屏平板电脑上使用熟悉和不熟悉的应用程序前后评估了他们的主观年龄。主观年龄评估采用划线标记或数字响应的方式。与样本中最年轻的参与者不同，最年长的参与者在操作后相对于操作前的基线感觉更老。这种效应在不熟悉的应用程序中比在熟悉的应用程序中更强。我们认为，使用技术会引发刻板印象威胁。虽然这种威胁不会影响表现，但它仍然会改变自我认知。这些发现可能对在日益技术化的世界中老年人的福祉产生深远的影响。
