Do ICT Competence in and ICT Service Use Affect Life Satisfaction? Focusing on Mobile ICT Services

Digital-related factors affecting life satisfaction among married immigrants

“…Life satisfaction improves quality of life and positively affects mental health [7,10]; therefore, identifying the factors affecting the life satisfaction among married immigrants is required to improve their life satisfaction or quality of life.Recently, with the development of information and communication technology (ICT), various digital-related activities such as social network service (SNS) have become more widespread, and many studies have reported that digital-related factors affect individuals' life satisfaction. Previous studies have found that digital use, digital self-e cacy, digital competence, and accessibility to digital information are positively associated with life satisfaction [11][12][13][14]. Digital communication, which refers to multimodal human-to-human social interaction mediated by ICT, including conversing via instant messenger, liking, commenting, posting, browsing a social media feed, or writing a mail [15, 16], was found to positively or negatively affect life satisfaction depending on the participants.…”