Social Interaction Between Older Adults (80+) and Younger People During Intergenerational Digital Gameplay

Zhang, Fan; Schell, Robyn; Kaufman, David; Salgado, Glaucia; Jeremic, Julija

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58536-9_25

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“…The results revealed that contact with older people reduced participants' prejudice toward them with an average effect size of r = −0.18. Furthermore, studies have found that intergenerational contact, e.g., in the form of digital gameplay or school-based pen-pal-letter programs [27], improves children's perceptions of and attitudes toward older people. Consistent with previous research [13], it was specifically the quality of the intergenerational contact that had a positive effect on attitudes [18] and behavioral intentions toward older people, e.g., to help and support them [26].…”

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Act like There Is a Tomorrow—Contact and Affinity with Younger People and Legacy Motivation as Predictors of Climate Protection among Older People

de Paula Sieverding,

Kulcar,

Schmidt

2024

Sustainability

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The climate crisis poses a major threat for sustainability, with the young and future generations likely to be among the most affected groups in the climate crisis. Older generations will be less affected but have a greater impact both in terms of contribution and mitigation. We investigated potential intergenerational drivers of older Germans’ climate protection intentions and behavior in two pre-registered studies (N1 = 411, 55- to 75-year olds; N2 = 309, 55- to 86-year olds). On a correlational level, both studies revealed that contact between generations (particularly high-quality contact) indirectly explained the participants’ climate protection intentions/behavior. This effect was mediated by affinity with younger people (Study 1) and its subfacets of perspective taking and empathic concern (but not the subfacet of perceived oneness; Study 2). Study 1 further provided evidence that legacy motivation, i.e., the desire to leave behind a positive legacy, was positively related to participants’ climate protection intentions and behavior. Study 2’s attempt at testing the causal role of the subfacets of affinity was not successful, as the experimental manipulation of perspective taking toward younger people failed. However, the two studies provide correlational evidence that the closer older people feel to younger people and the future consequences of their behaviors, the more willing they are to protect the climate.

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Section: Contactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Act like There Is a Tomorrow—Contact and Affinity with Younger People and Legacy Motivation as Predictors of Climate Protection among Older People

de Paula Sieverding,

Kulcar,

Schmidt

2024

Sustainability

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“…The COMMIC social approach aimed at bridging the "age segregation" of classical institutions (e.g., elementary schools, retirement homes, children's recreation centres, senior clubs) in the local communities of these two cities. We were aware of the social and scientific dimensions of the project, as well as the empowering experience of intergenerational activities for participants (Newman & Smith, 1997;Zhang, Schell, Kaufman, Salgado, & Jeremic, 2017). We built spaces of intergenerational exchange to facilitate the transfer, not only of digital know-how, but also of social, empathic, and problem-solving skills.…”

Section: Journal Of Childhood Studies Ideas From Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Transmedial Worlds with Social Impact: Exploring Intergenerational Learning in Collaborative Video Game Design

Mansilla¹,

Betancur²,

Lambach³

2019

J Child. Stud.

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Liliana Mejía Betancur holds a PhD in information and communication sciences from the Sorbonne Paris Cité University and a master's in culture and communication with a specialty in cultural and creative industries, media, web, arts from the University of Paris. She has been a social-journalist at the University of Antioquia (Colombia) and is a member of the research laboratory Cultural Industries and Artistic Creation-LabEx ICCA (France). Claudia Queiroz Lambach holds a PhD in information and communication sciences from the Sorbonne Paris Cité University and a master's in theory of visual culture from IADE-In 2016, a multidisciplinary team of researchers in educational anthropology, information and communication sciences, and visual studies created COMMIC, a two-year research project funded by the research laboratory Cultural Industries and Artistic Creation-LabEx ICCA (France) and implemented in two French cities, Paris and Bagnolet (http://projectcommic. com/). The project consisted of the implementation of several workshops where children from 8-12 years of age and elders 65 years and over designed a video game using Bloxels Builder (BB), a tablet computing application based on the identification of colour and spatial position of small plastic cubes on a big plastic board game. Using a quasi-experimental methodology, the purpose of the study was to understand three emergent topics: (1) the intergenerational transfer of explicit and implicit knowledge; (2) the intergenerational learning associated with transmedia narrative design; and (3) the generational uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs). We evaluated these topics according to the participants' behaviour during the workshops, focusing on implicit and explicit expressions of solidarity between participants and the creative production of video games based on the affordances of narratives and game design.

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Designing Social Exergame to Enhance Intergenerational Interaction and Exercise

Kaisar

Qiu

Yuan

et al. 2022

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Social Interaction Between Older Adults (80+) and Younger People During Intergenerational Digital Gameplay

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Act like There Is a Tomorrow—Contact and Affinity with Younger People and Legacy Motivation as Predictors of Climate Protection among Older People

Act like There Is a Tomorrow—Contact and Affinity with Younger People and Legacy Motivation as Predictors of Climate Protection among Older People

Transmedial Worlds with Social Impact: Exploring Intergenerational Learning in Collaborative Video Game Design

Designing Social Exergame to Enhance Intergenerational Interaction and Exercise

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