The Mediating Effect of Digital Literacy on the Relationship between Smartphone Use Motives and Life Satisfaction for Senior Citizens in Korea
Abstract
Background: The purpose of this study was to verify the effects of smartphone usage mo-tives on life satisfaction in older adults, and to examine the mediating effect of digital literacy in the relationship between smartphone use motives and life satisfaction.
Methods: Data from 2004 participants of the 2018 Smartphone overdependence survey were analyzed by structural equation modeling.
Results: Smartphone use for communication had a positive impact on life satisfaction, and smartphone use for leisure negatively influenced life satisfaction. However, smartphone use for information seeking was not directly related to life satisfaction. Communication and in-formation-seeking use motives positively influenced digital literacy, but smartphone use for leisure did not affect. Digital literacy was also positively related to life satisfaction. Finally, communication use motives influenced life satisfaction partially mediating digital literacy, and smartphone use for information seeking influenced life satisfaction, fully mediating digital literacy.
Conclusion: By explaining how smartphone use motives significantly affect senior citizens’ life satisfaction, this study established the further meaningfulness of digital literacy.
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2. Cha SS, Seo BK (2018). Smartphone use and smartphone addiction in middle school students in Korea: Prevalence, social networking service, and game use. Health Psychol Open, 5(1): 2055102918755046.
3. Noë B, Turner LD, Linden DE J, Allen SM, Winkens B, Whitaker RM (2019). Identifying Indicators of Smartphone Addiction Through User-App Interac-tion. Computers in Human Behavior, 99: 56-65.
4. National Information Society Agency (2018). Smartphone overdependence survey. https://eng.nia.or.kr/site/nia_eng/main.do
5. Bae SM (2019). The relationship be-tween smartphone use for communi-cation, social capital, and subjective well-being in Korean adolescents: Verification using multiple latent growth modeling. Children and Youth Services Review, 96: 93-99.
6. Jung JM, Chan-Olmsted S, Park BN, Kim YJ (2012). Factors affecting e-book reader awareness, interest, and intention to use. New Media & Society, 14: 204-224.
7. Blumler JG, Katz E (Eds.) (1974). The uses of mass communications: Current per-spectives on gratifications research. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
8. Liu X, Liu XC, Wei R (2014). Maintain-ing social connectedness in a fact changing world: Examining the effects of mobile phone uses on loneliness among teens in Tibet. Mobile Media & Communication, 2(3): 318-334.
9. Park NS, Lee HJ (2012). Social Implica-tions of Smartphone Use: Korean Col-lege Students’ Smartphone Use and Psychological Well-Being. Cyberpsychol-ogy, Behavior, and Social Networking, 15(9): 491-497.
10. Leung L, Wei R (2000). More than just talk on the move: Uses and gratifica-tions of the cellular phone. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 77(2): 308–320.
11. Chan M (2018). Mobile-mediated multi-modal communications, relationship quality and subjective well-being: An analysis of smartphone use from a life course perspective. Computers in Hu-man Behavior, 87: 254-262.
12. Diener ED, Emmons RA, Larsen RJ, Griffin S (1985). The satisfaction with life scale. J Pers Assess, 49(1): 71-75.
13. Bae SM (2017). The relationship be-tween the type of smartphone use and smartphone dependence of Korean adolescents: National survey study. Children and Youth Services Review, 81: 207-211.
14. Park N, Kee KF, Valenzuela S (2009). Being immersed in social networking environment: facebook groups, uses and gratifications, and social out-comes. CyberPsychology and Behavior, 12: 729–733.
15. Wei R, Ro WH (2006). Staying connect-ed while on the move. New Media & Society, 8(1): 53-72.
16. Hong SG, Trimi S, Kim DW (2016). Smartphone use and internet literacy of senior citizens. Journal of Assistive Technologies, 10(1): 27-38.
17. Chan M (2015). Mobile phones and the good life: Examining the relationships among mobile use, social capital, and subjective well-being. New Media & Society, 17(1): 96-113.
18. McMellon CA, Schiffman LG (2002). Cybersenior empowerment: How some older Individuals are taking con-trol of their lives. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 21, 157-175.
19. Jeong SH, Kim HJ, Yum JY, Hwang YR (2016). What type of content are smartphone users addicted to?: SNS vs games. Computers in Human Behavior, 54: 10-17.
20. Kumcagiz H, Gunduz Y (2016). Rela-tionship between Psychological well-being and smartphone addiction of university students. International Journal of Higher Education, 5(4): 144–56.
21. Norris P (2001). Digital divide: Civic en-gagement, information poverty, and the In-ternet worldwide. UK: Cambridge Uni-versity Press: Cambridge.
22. OECD (2011). Understanding the digital divide. Paris. https://doi.org/10.1787/236405667766
23. Puspitasari L, Ishil K (2016). Digital di-vides and mobile Internet in Indone-sia: Impact of Smartphones. Telematics and Informatics, 33: 472-483.
24. Bråten I, Britt MA, Strømsø HI, Rouet JF (2011). The role of epistemic be-liefs in the comprehension of multiple expository texts: toward an integrated model. Educational Psychologist, 46(1): 48–70.
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27. Brown K, Campbell SW, Ling R (2011). Mobile phones bridging the digital divide for teens in the US?. Future Inter-net, 3(2): 144-58.
28. Zhao MY, Jin XH, Kim IK, Park C (2012). The digital divide among mo-bile phone users, Korea. Society of IT Services, 12(3): 553-558.
29. Kim SH (2002). A study on the classification of digital culture contents on the internet. Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science, 36(3): 181-200.
30. Cotten SR, Anderson WA, McCullough BM (2012). The impact of ICT use on loneliness and contact with others among older adults. Gerontechnology, 11(2): 161-165.
31. Kim MY, Jun HJ (2014). The Relation-ships among IT use, Satisfaction with IT use and life satisfaction of Korean older adults. Journal of Asian Regional Association of Home Economics (JARA-HE), 21(4): 167-178.
32. Robert Z, Jeffrey S, Marilyn L, Frances W (2015). Understanding older adults’ perceptions of internet use: An ex-ploratory factor analysis. Journal Educational Gerontology, 41(7): 504-518.
33. Johnson GJ, Ambrose PJ (2006). Neo-tribes: the power and potential of online communities in health care. Communication of the ACM. 49(1): 107-113.
34. Oh JA, Ryu JW (2018). The effect of digital literacy on psychological well-being and life satisfaction in older adults. Korean Pub-lic Management Review, 32(2): 319-344.
35. National Information Society Agency (2016). Smartphone overdependence survey.
36. Hong SH (2000). The criteria for selecting appropriate fit indices in structural equation modeling and their rationales. Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 19(1): 161-177.
37. Ledbetter AM (2009). Measuring online communication attitude: instrument development and validation. Communi-cation Monographs, 76(4): 463-486.
38. Kozinets RV (1999). E-tribalized mar-keting? The strategic implications of virtual communities of consumption. European Management Journal, 17(3): 252-264.
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Bae SM. The Mediating Effect of Digital Literacy on the Relationship between Smartphone Use Motives and Life Satisfaction for Senior Citizens in Korea. Iran J Public Health. 2022;51(2):336-344.
