School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.
J Elder Abuse Negl. 2024 Nov-Dec;36(5):508-527. doi: 10.1080/08946566.2024.2404040. Epub 2024 Sep 17.
Older adults have a strong desire for emotional connectivity and those who lack such social connectedness would be easily taken advantage of and experience fraud. We aimed to examine the association between loneliness and fraud victimization and further investigate the causal relationship through experimental manipulation. Fifty younger adults (aged 18-29, = 26.62), 43 middle-aged adults (aged 32-53, = 40.84) and 54 older adults (aged 60-88, = 68.31) were randomly assigned to induced loneliness or control conditions by a complete randomized design and then were asked to rate the credibility and purchase intention for nine misleading advertisements. Middle-aged and older adults, but not younger adults, showed higher susceptibility to fraud after loneliness manipulation. The present experiment confirmed that loneliness could lead to higher fraud victimization for middle-aged and older adults, suggesting future interventions should target those lonely middle-aged and older adults to prevent potential fraud.
老年人有强烈的情感联系的欲望，那些缺乏这种社交联系的人很容易被利用和受骗。我们旨在研究孤独感与欺诈受害之间的关系，并通过实验操纵进一步探讨其因果关系。50 名年轻成年人（年龄 18-29 岁，均值=26.62）、43 名中年成年人（年龄 32-53 岁，均值=40.84）和 54 名老年成年人（年龄 60-88 岁，均值=68.31）被完全随机设计随机分配到孤独感诱导或对照条件下，然后被要求对 9 个误导性广告的可信度和购买意向进行评分。中年和老年成年人，而不是年轻成年人，在孤独感诱导后表现出更高的欺诈易感性。本实验证实，孤独感可能导致中年和老年成年人更高的欺诈受害率，这表明未来的干预措施应该针对那些孤独的中年和老年成年人，以防止潜在的欺诈。
