Factors Affecting Self-Development of Elderlies in Social Network Era in Bangkok

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to: 1) study the behavior on media exposure with news about technology, technology learning, technology using in daily life, and self-development of elderly in Bangkok, 2) compare the demographics and the self-development of elderly in social network era, and 3) study the factors that affect the self-development in social network era of the elderly in Bangkok. The data were collected from 400 elderly in Bangkok, who were older than 60 years. The frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation were used to analyze the data. The methods used in hypothesis testing include chi-square, t-test, one-way analysis of variance, and multiple regressions. The result of the study showed that: the elderly in Bangkok get news about technology from watching TV, and technology learning, technology use in daily life, and self-development were only at middle level. The hypothesis testing showed that the age and monthly income of the elderly had a statistically significant difference of .05 level on their self-development in the social network era. The factors affecting the self-development of the Bangkok’s elderly in social network era were technology using in daily life, with 45.90 percent, and technology learning behavior with 37.20 percent.