ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Psychology of Aging
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1595688
Effects of psychological resilience on social media information-sharing behavior in older adults: Mediating role of technology anxiety and perceived enjoyment
Provisionally accepted
- 1Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China
- 2The Fourth People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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Under the background of the rapid development of information technology, the accelerated aging of the population and the prominent "digital divide" among older adults, the information sharing behavior of older adults on social media has attracted much attention. This study combines Technology Acceptance Model and Uses and Gratification Theory to construct a theoretical model with psychological resilience as the core, and explores its influence mechanism with technology anxiety, social interaction, perceived enjoyment, and perceived ease of use on the information sharing behavior of older adults. Through the questionnaire survey of Chinese older adults aged 55 and above, Structural Equation Model is used for empirical analysis. The results show that psychological resilience, social interaction, perceived enjoyment, and perceived ease of use significantly positively affect the information sharing behavior of older adults, while technology anxiety negatively inhibits information sharing and significantly reduces the perceived ease of use of social media of older adults. Psychological resilience directly influences information sharing behavior and indirectly promotes information sharing behavior by reducing technology anxiety, but it has no significant direct correlation with perceived enjoyment. Social interaction indirectly promotes information sharing through the mediation of perceived enjoyment. This study provides a reference for understanding the information sharing behavior of older adults, promoting their integration into the digital society, and promoting the harmonious coexistence of digitalization and aging.
Keywords: older adults, psychological resilience, Information sharing behavior, Technology anxiety, Uses and gratification theory
Received: 18 Mar 2025; Accepted: 22 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 An, Xiang, Wan, Yang, Zhu and An. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Jing An, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China
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