Wen Jing, Yang Hang, Zhang Qianhan, Shao Jingjin
Center for Mental Health Education, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
J Elder Abuse Negl. 2022 Jan-Feb;34(1):1-19. doi: 10.1080/08946566.2021.2024105. Epub 2022 Jan 13.
The current study aimed to clarify the relationships among loneliness, susceptibility to persuasion, self-control, and vulnerability to fraud among older adults. Especially, we wanted to investigate whether susceptibility to persuasion mediates the association between loneliness and vulnerability to fraud, and whether self-control moderates the relationship in this process. A moderated mediation model was examined with 252 Chinese older adults ( = 67.94, = 6.27) who completed questionnaires regarding loneliness, susceptibility to persuasion, self-control, and vulnerability to fraud. The results revealed that loneliness significantly predicted older adults' vulnerability to fraud and susceptibility to persuasion partially mediated this relationship. Moreover, this mediating effect was only significant for older adults with low self-control. These findings enrich our understanding of how loneliness affects older adults' vulnerability to fraud and provide practical guidance for establishing protections against fraud targeting older adults.
当前的研究旨在阐明老年人的孤独感、易受说服性、自我控制能力以及易受骗性之间的关系。特别是，我们想要探究易受说服性是否在孤独感与易受骗性之间起中介作用，以及自我控制能力是否在这一过程中调节二者的关系。我们对252名中国老年人（年龄均值 = 67.94，标准差 = 6.27）进行了一项有调节的中介模型检验，这些老年人完成了关于孤独感、易受说服性、自我控制能力和易受骗性的问卷调查。结果显示，孤独感能显著预测老年人的易受骗性，且易受说服性在二者关系中起部分中介作用。此外，这种中介效应仅在自我控制能力较低的老年人中显著。这些研究结果丰富了我们对于孤独感如何影响老年人易受骗性的理解，并为建立针对老年人的防欺诈保护措施提供了实践指导。
