Discourse Shift:Intergenerational Challenges and Coping Strategies of Digital Reverse Mentoring in Family Post-Figurative Culture
With that development of digital age,digital education for the older adults is growing extremely important.Through logistic regression of digital reverse mentoring and discourse in the longitudinal data of the 2018-2020 China Learning Older Adults Social Tracking Survey(CLASS),it is found that there is a signifi-cant positive relationship between digital reverse mentoring and the discourse of grandchildren and/or great-grandchildren in the family field.The empirical tests show that older adults learn to access the Internet from their grandchildren and/or great-grandchildren enhances the latter's influence on the former's behavior,i.e.,older adults'acceptance of digital reverse mentoring from their grandchildren and/or great-grandchildren in-creases the latter's power of discourse and decreases the older adults'power of discourse.Specifically,when ol-der adults are able to receive more help from their offspring on how to use electronic devices,access online re-sources,etc.,this interaction tends to increase the offspring's voice in family discussions and correspondingly decrease the older adults'influence.In response to the discursive shifts generated by digital reverse mentoring in the family post-figurative culture and its practical challenges,it is important to help the offspring to recognize and understand their multiple identities and to increase their sense of personal identity;to clarify the rights and obligations of the roles in which the offspring are involved;to develop a positive sense of reverse mentoring;and to encourage the society to increase its alternative support and to provide multi-directional pathways for digital reverse mentoring.
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