Development and application of the digital literacy scale for Chinese elderly
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https://doi.org/10.22399/ijcesen.1811Keywords:
Digital literacy, Chinese elderly, ScaleAbstract
Population aging and societal digitization are two major trends intersecting and paralleling in today's world. On the one hand, the pace of population aging is accelerating globally; on the other hand, the wave of digitization is sweeping across the world. Accurately assessing the digital literacy level of the elderly can help enhance their social adaptability, thereby unlocking the potential of the aging population and promoting sustainable social development. However, existing measurements of citizens' digital literacy are typically based on large-scale social survey items and do not consider the heterogeneity of the population. Developing a self-assessment scale specifically designed to benchmark the development ability standards of elderly digital literacy, and validated through educational and psychometric means, can help more accurately grasp the development level and improvement direction of the elderly in different dimensions of digital literacy.
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