Morrison Benjamin A, Coventry Lynne, Briggs Pam
Psychology and Communication Technology Lab, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Front Psychol. 2020 Apr 30;11:623. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00623. eCollection 2020.
Retirement is a major life transition, which leads to substantial changes across almost all aspects of day-to-day life. Although this transition has previously been seen as normative marker for entry into older adulthood, its influence on later life has remained relatively unstudied in terms of technology use and cybersecurity behaviours. This is problematic as older adults are at particular risk of becoming victims of cyber-crime. This study aimed to investigate which factors associated with the retirement transition were likely to increase vulnerability to cyber-attack in a sample of 12 United Kingdom based older adults, all of whom had retired within the past 5 years. Semi-structured, one to one interviews were conducted and subsequently analysed using thematic analysis. Six themes were identified referring to areas of loss in: social interaction, finances, day-to-day routine, feelings of competence, sense of purpose, and technology support structures. We discuss the implications of these losses for building cyber-resilience in retirees, with suggestions for future research.
退休是人生中的一个重大转变，它几乎会给日常生活的方方面面带来巨大变化。尽管此前人们一直将这一转变视为步入老年的一个常规标志，但就技术使用和网络安全行为而言，其对晚年生活的影响仍相对缺乏研究。这是个问题，因为老年人特别容易成为网络犯罪的受害者。本研究旨在调查与退休转变相关的哪些因素可能会增加12名英国老年人遭受网络攻击的脆弱性，这些老年人均在过去5年内退休。研究人员进行了半结构化的一对一访谈，并随后使用主题分析法进行了分析。确定了六个主题，分别涉及在社交互动、财务状况、日常活动、能力感、目标感和技术支持结构等方面的丧失。我们讨论了这些丧失对增强退休人员网络复原力的影响，并为未来研究提出了建议。
