Yiwei Chen,Olivia Pethtel,Xiaodong Ma
Yiwei Chen
The major goals of the present study were to (a) examine age differences in susceptibility to age stereotypes and (b) test a self-awareness manipulation in counteracting age stereotypes. Young and older adults read two sets of descriptors t...
Attitudes Towards and Limitations to ICT Use in Assisted and Independent Living Communities: Findings from a Specially-Designed Technological Intervention [0.03%]
辅助生活和独立生活社区中ICT使用的态度与局限性：一项专门设计的技术干预研究的发现
Ronald W Berkowsky,Shelia R Cotten,Elizabeth A Yost et al.
Ronald W Berkowsky et al.
While much literature has been devoted to theoretical explanations of the learning processes of older adults and to the methods of teaching best utilized in older populations, less has focused on the education of older adults who reside in ...
Yiwei Chen,Yue-Ting Lee,Olivia L Pethtel et al.
Yiwei Chen et al.
The primary purpose of the present study was to investigate age differences in goal concordance, time use, and Well-Being. Past research has found that despite age-related decline in life circumstances (e.g., health), the Well-Being of olde...
Age-Related Effects of Study Time Allocation on Memory Performance in a Verbal and a Spatial Task [0.03%]
学习时间分配对语言任务和空间任务记忆表现的年龄差异性效应研究
Lacy E Krueger
Lacy E Krueger
Past studies have suggested that study time allocation partially mediates age relations on memory performance in a verbal task. To identify whether this applied to a different material modality, participants ages 20-87 completed a spatial t...
Understanding and Changing Older Adults' Perceptions and Learning of Social Media [0.03%]
理解并改变老年人对社交媒体的认知和学习状况
Bo Xie,Ivan Watkins,Jen Golbeck et al.
Bo Xie et al.
An exploratory study was conducted to answer the following questions: What are older adults' perceptions of social media? What educational strategies can facilitate their learning of social media? A thematic map was developed to illustrate ...
Jeanine M Parisi,George W Rebok,Michelle C Carlson et al.
Jeanine M Parisi et al.
The Experience Corps®, a community-based intergenerational program, was developed to promote the health of older adults, while simultaneously addressing unmet social and academic needs in public elementary schools. The model was designed t...
Peter A Lichtenberg
Peter A Lichtenberg
Mentoring junior faculty in geropsychology is becoming more critical due to the paucity of geropsychologists and the financial and talent costs experienced by universities of faculty turnover. This paper presents the unique aspects of mento...
Chin Chin Lee,Sara J Czaja,Joseph Sharit
Chin Chin Lee
An increasingly aging workforce and advances in technology are changing work environments and structures. The continued employability of older adults, particularly those of lower socioeconomic status (SES), requires them to participate in t...
Enhancing the Attitudes and Self-Efficacy of Older Adults Toward Computers and the Internet: Results of a Pilot Study [0.03%]
提升老年人对计算机和互联网的态度和自我效能的试点研究结果
Luciana Lagana
Luciana Lagana
This pilot study explored whether a manualized computer and Internet training program could enhance older adults' computer self-efficacy and attitudes toward computers and the Internet. A total of 32 community-dwelling adults 65 years of ag...
Chiung-Ju Liu,Susan Kemper,James A Bovaird
Chiung-Ju Liu
This study examined how Flesch Reading Ease and text cohesion affect older adults' comprehension of common health texts. All older adults benefited when high Flesh Reading Ease was combined with high cohesion. Older adults with small workin...