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KMID : 1023720120580010303
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Journal of Welfare for the Aged
2012 Volume.58 No. 1 p.303 ~ p.324
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A Study of the Effect of the Adaptation Abilities of Babyboomers on the Using Information Technology
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Kim Mee-Ryoung
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Abstract
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This study examined the effect of 7,120 thousand babyboomers’ adaptation abilities on the use of information technology who live in the borderline of the digital and analog period. As a theoretical framework, Rawton’s(1991) Competence-Environmental Press Model of Adaptation was used. The research results indicated that there were gender and job differences of self-efficacy, confidence in the use of information technology and the recognition of the effect of digital life. Also, there were differences in the approach of information technology, communication through the information technology and the ability of using information technology by self-efficacy, confidence of the use of information technology and the recognition of the effect of digital life. The results of the hierarchical regression indicated that self-efficacy, confidence of the use of information technology and the recognition of the effect of digital life affected on the approach of information technology in a statistically significant level. Also, self-efficacy and confidence in the use of information technology affected on the communication through the information technology in a statistically significant level. Finally, only self-efficacy affected on the Ability of using information technology in a statistically significant level.
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KEYWORD
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adaptation abilities, self-efficacy, Competence-Environmental Press Model of Adaptation, use of information technology
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