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From isolation to connection : testing the relationship between internet use and subjective well-being in Europe's elderly population
Egberts, J. (2023) From isolation to connection : testing the relationship between internet use and subjective well-being in Europe's elderly population.
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| Abstract: | Over the last decades, the use of online devices, mobile phones, and the internet, has increasingly grown. These digital technologies have taken a major role in our daily lives. This so-called global phenomenon of digitalisation provides more efficient and smarter ways of communication. Everyday habitual activities such as reading online newspapers, booking holidays, scheduling public transportation trips, and foremostly, communicating online with your family and friends, have become commonplace over the last decade. At the same time, the world is facing a demographic change, meaning a significant increase in the number of older people. These two megatrends, digitalisation, and the demographic change, are fundamentally changing and affecting society and individual lives. As the skills and utilization of these technologies, including the use of the internet, differs over different population groups, a new challenged emerged in the mid-1990s: the digital divide. What are the consequences of these digital developments and the digital divide on our aging society and the fast-growing group of elderly in Europe? This paper investigates the implications of one of the foundations in this era of digitalization, namely the use of the internet, on the subjective well-being of elderly in Europe by performing statistical tests on a Eurobarometer survey. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 88 social and public administration |
| Programme: | Management Society and Technology BSc (56654) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/94289 |
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