Psychological profiles of older adult Web 2.0 tool users

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue , 2016, Pages 673-681

  Díaz Prieto, Cristina ^a   García Sánchez, Jesús Nicasio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adults; Differential patterns; Internet; Seniors; Web 2.0 tools

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

ADULTS; DIFFERENTIAL PATTERNS; GENERAL LINEAR MODELING; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE; SENIORS; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; WEB 2.0 TOOLS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

ADULT; AGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD; MOTIVATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SPANIARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOOL USE;

EID: 84980002259     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.07.007     Document Type: Article

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