Influence of perceived importance of the internet on life satisfaction and health of the older people: An analysis based on intermediary and moderating effects

Abstract

With the global growth of the aging population, healthy aging and active aging has become an important goal for the future social development of all countries. The purpose of this study is to explore the potential relationships between the older people's perceived importance of the Internet, family atmosphere, behavioral independence, life satisfaction, and health. The data come from the China Family Panel Studies' fourth wave (2015–2016) and fifth wave (2017–2018) investigations. According to an analysis of data of 5,948 people over 60 years old performed using LISREL 8.8 software, the selected cases answered the same questions about the perceived importance of the Internet, life satisfaction, and health status in two waves of surveys. The results show that life satisfaction and self-rated health have cross influences, while at the same time both are persistent in the time baseline, and family atmosphere and behavioral independence play an important intermediary role. Therefore, strengthening parent–child interaction, promoting parent–child relationships, and improving behavioral independence can effectively improve the life satisfaction and health status of the older people.

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“…The average global Internet penetration rate in both urban and rural areas was now 62% [64]. In the information age, the perceived value of the Internet widely affects people's decisions and behaviors [65,66] and also directly or indirectly affects farmers' decision making [27]. Based on previous studies [46,47], it is important to empirically test the perceived importance of the Internet as mediator by operationally defining it in terms of respondents' ratings of the importance of the Internet (1 = very unimportant to 5 = very important).…”