Research on the Mechanism of Social Adaptation of the Elderly Empowered by Digital Social Contact:A Perspective of Coping with Loneliness
From the perspective of loneliness coping and based on self-determination theory and attachment theory,this paper explores the influence mechanism of digital social software on the social adaptation of the elderly.Studies have found that emotional loneliness has a significant positive impact on the willingness to use digital social software in the elderly,while the impact of social loneliness is not significant;the regulative cop-ing plays a mediating role in the influence of loneliness on the willingness to use digital social software,and the willingness to use digital social software positively affect the subjective sense of social adaptation of the eld-erly.In order to help the elderly group integrate into the digital age and enhance their sense of social adapta-tion,we should appropriately improve the network involvement of the elderly from the aspect of information services,improve the network literacy level of the elderly users from the aspect of social services,and subdi-vide the elderly group from the aspect of enterprise services to meet the differentiated needs of the elderly group.
lonelinessdigital social contactsocial adaptationnetwork literacyelderly group