scholarly journals The Senior Internet User: Lessons From The Cybernun Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Computer Use ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Computer Users ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Religious Sisters

<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin: 0in 0.6in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>How do senior citizens view computers? What can help or hinder their use of today&rsquo;s digital technologies? </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">&ldquo;The Cybernun Study: Religious Sisters, Life Satisfaction and Computer Use&rdquo; examined computer use and life satisfaction of senior religious sisters; also addressing computer usability concerns of senior citizens. A sample was obtained of 103 nuns in Upstate New York.; self-identified as computer users (CU) or non-users (NU). Nuns completed demographic information, two structured surveys and responded to additional semi-structured questions in selected interviews. Analysis of the open-ended responses found interesting differences in sister&rsquo;s perceptions of computer use. </span></span></span></p>

Interaction and Interviewer Bias in a Survey of the Aged

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 771-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl B. Freitag ◽  
John R. Barry
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
College Faculty ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Interviewer Effects ◽  
Aged People ◽  
Interviewer Bias

Differential net interviewer effects were measured in a statewide survey of aged people. 54 interviewers (college faculty members, students, and members of a senior citizens organization) conducted the survery in a 29-county area in Georgia. Attitudes toward the aged were measured by a semantic differential administered to each interviewer. Three dimensions of Instrumental—Ineffective, Autonomous—Dependent and Personal Acceptability—Unacceptability were used along with demographic information to identify interviewers with contrasting characteristics. Life satisfaction indicators and number of not ascertained responses were used as criterion measures to test the effects of interviewer's age, sex, race, faculty-student status, intrusiveness, retired status, and attitudes toward the aged.

Computer Use and Predictors of Life Satisfaction Among Older Adult Computer Users

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Katsamanis ◽  
Nicholas K. Lim ◽  
Carmen Roca ◽  
Maria Karavidas
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Computer Use ◽  
Computer Users

The Social Dimensions of Shoreline Quality in Upstate New York

1988 ◽  
Vol 15 (23) ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Hisayoshi Mitsuda ◽  
Charles C. Geisler
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
The Social

PSYCHOLOGY OF COMPUTER USE: XXIX. MEASURING COMPUTER USERS' STRESS: THE COMPUTER HASSLES SCALE

1993 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 923-929 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD A. HUDIBURG ◽  
SARA R. BROWN ◽  
T. MORRIS JONES
Keyword(s):  
Computer Use ◽  
Computer Users

Availability of water from aquifers in upstate New York

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irwin H. Kantrowitz ◽  
Deborah S. Snavely
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Upstate New York
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