老化科学ジャーナル

概要

Aging and Technology

Richard Ferraro

In a recent article (Ferraro, Wunderlich, Wyrobek, & Weivoda, 2014), my co-authors and I observed some interesting relationships between age and texting and iPod dependence. We wanted to see if texting and iPod dependence were related to each other (they are) but also included a wide age range of subjects, primarily due to the fact that we were employing MTurk (Buhrmester, Kwang, & Gosling, 2011). Across all four of the texting and iPod dependence scales (Emotional Reaction, Excessive Use, Relationship Disruption, Psychological/ Behavioral Symptoms), all relationships with the variable Age were negative (r’s ranged from -.06 to -.45) and all but one was significant (ps<0.01).