The Factors Influencing Acceptance of Applications by The Elderly
Keywords:
Technology Acceptance, Application, Elderly PersonAbstract
The objectives of this research were to explore the factors influencing the acceptance of applications by the elderly. The factors that were focused on consist of the ease, usefulness, attitude, social influence, performance expectancy, facilitating conditions, and acceptance of applications by the elderly. The quantitative research was conducted with the sample group was the elderly who registered and received the old-age allowance in Bangkok, 400 persons, through multi-stage sampling. The research instruments were questionnaires whereas data analysis was conducted by using descriptive statistics to gain values of frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and the inferential statistical analysis that was the multiple regression. The research findings on the factors influencing acceptance of applications by the elderly can be predicted by 77.7 percent and the aspect with the highest influence was usefulness (Beta = 0.420, P-value = 0.000), followed by performance expectancy (Beta = 0.385, p-value = 0.000), attitude (Beta = 0.291, p-value = 0.000), facilitating conditions (Beta = 0.206, p-value = 0.000), ease (Beta =0.092, p-value = 0.009), and social Influence (Beta = 0.083, p-value = 0.006), respectively.
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