城市老年人数字生活的现状及影响因素的分析——以中部某省会城市为例

Analysis of the Current Situation and Influencing Factors of the Digital Life of the Urban Senior Citizens:Taking a Central Provincial Capital City as An Example

随着老龄化社会与数字化社会的交融,关于老年人数字生活的研究引发多个国家、多个领域的关注。本文以开放式访谈和扎根理论分别作为数据收集和分析的方法,以智能手机为例,对老年人的数字生活展开研究。笔者选取中部某省会城市7个具有代表性的地点展开访谈,并借助扎根理论三级编码的分析方法,对老年人智能手机利用行为以及行为的影响因素进行分析。在揭示出老年人智能手机利用行为现状的同时,发现老年人智能手机利用行为的影响因素包括个人资本、人际网络、社会环境和设备性能,同时各个因素之间存在相互影响。基于以上结论并结合积极老龄化的国家战略,提出改善老年人数字生活的解决方案。

With the integration of the aging society and the digital society,researches on the digital life of senior citizens have attracted attention from many countries and fields.This article used open-ended interviews and grounded theory to collect and analyze data and took smart phones as an example to conduct research on the digital life of senior citizens.The authors selected 7 representative locations in a provincial capital city in central China to conduct interviews and analyzed the senior citizens’behaviors in using smartphones and the factors affecting them,with the help of the grounded theory three-level coding analysis method.While revealing the status of senior citizens’use of smartphones,the authors identified the influencing factors such as personal capital,interpersonal network,social environment,and equipment performance.At the same time,these factors influenced each other.Based on the above conclusions and in view of the national strategy of active aging,it proposed a solution to improve the digital life of senior citizens.