Reducing the Digital Divide: What Have Adult Children Done for Their Middle-aged Parents?

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201214.537How to use a DOI?

Keywords

digital divide, smartphone use, intergenerational support, middle-aged parents, Internet use

Abstract

Internet technology has penetrated into daily life; however, disadvantaged digital groups are experiencing more and more difficulties in the context of digitization. A survey was conducted to explore the support of adult children for their middle-aged parents to adapt to digital life in China. The results show that adult children’s support for parents mainly focus on economic support, educational support, emotional support and advice. In terms of financial support, there is no significance between the male and the female; respondents pay more attention to the skill of social communication by smartphones to access the Internet; in addition, the respondents who are the only child in the family do not give more emotional support than the ones with siblings; furthermore, income and education are not statistically significant predictors of advice.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Huanhuan Dou
AU  - Shizhou Wan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/16
TI  - Reducing the Digital Divide: What Have Adult Children Done for Their Middle-aged Parents?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 3rd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 424
EP  - 428
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201214.537
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201214.537
ID  - Dou2020
ER  -