‘I feel less lonely’: what older people say about participating in a social networking website
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Overall, participants' experience of the qualitative interventions was positive, and the interventions were effective in reducing and managing loneliness, facilitating network building, enhancing the frequency and quality of communication with friends and family, and improving subjective wellbeing.
“Overall, their experience was positive, and the interventions were effective in reducing and managing loneliness (Ballantyne et al., 2010), facilitating network building (Jarvis et al., 2019), enhancing the frequency and quality of communication with friends and family (Judges et al., 2017), and improving subjective wellbeing (Hemberg & Santamäki, 2018).”
From The relationship between social media use and psychosocial outcomes in older adults: A systematic review (2024) · cites this paper as Ballantyne et al., 2010
In interventional studies, interventions often involve face-to-face and/or online socialization between participants and/or between participants and trainers, which may obscure the origin of the effect on the dependent variables.
“Fourth, in interventional studies, interventions often involve face-to-face and/or online socialization between participants and/or between participants and trainers (e.g.Ballantyne et al., 2010), which may obscure the origin of the effect on the dependent variables.”
From The relationship between social media use and psychosocial outcomes in older adults: A systematic review (2024) · cites this paper as Ballantyne et al., 2010
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- Authors
- Ballantyne, A., Trenwith, L., Zubrinich, S., & Corlis, M.
- Affiliations
- University of South Australia (AU)
- South Australian Water Corporation (AU)
- ORCID
- Corlis, Megan
- Venue
- Quality in Ageing and Older Adults
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Published
- 2010-09-13
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 25-35
- ISSN
- 1471-7794 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2133505404
- Cited by
- 102
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 8.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Quality in Ageing and Older Adults (publishedVersion)
- Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Technology Use by Older Adults
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Keywords
- loneliness, older adults, social networking sites, internet use, community aged care, digital literacy, one-on-one tutoring, social connectedness, supportive environment, intervention evaluation
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