Elderly People's Choice of Media and their Perceived State of Loneliness

dc.contributor.authorOngun, Erdem
dc.contributor.authorGüder, Feride Zeynep
dc.contributor.authorDemirağ, Aşkın
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-03T18:42:09Z
dc.date.available2021-01-03T18:42:09Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.departmentYüksekokullar, Yabancı Diller Yüksekokuluen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study aims at finding the relationship between elderly people's perceived state of loneliness and their choice of (old and/or new) media instruments. The sample of the study consists of randomly selected 300 elderly people over 60 who reside in rest homes in two different cities, Hatay and Istanbul in Turkey. Participants were given a questionnaire with three sections. The first section included questions related to the participants' demographic characteristics. Adapted from Russell's (1996) "Loneliness Scale (Version 3)", the second part was related to participants' perceived state of loneliness. Final section was about their choice of media and related details such as aim and time spent on them. Analyzed by statistical methods, study findings show that elderly people from two different social settings and with changing demographic features display differing degrees of loneliness with a significant relationship between the forms of media they used, their related choices, aims and perceived state of loneliness.en_US
dc.identifier.citation7
dc.identifier.endpage47en_US
dc.identifier.issn1986-3497en_US
dc.identifier.issn1986-3497
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage35en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/3708
dc.identifier.volume6en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000439894800003en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.institutionauthorOngun, Erdemen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOnline Journal Communication & Media Technologies-Ojcmten_US
dc.relation.journalOnline Journal of Communication and Media Technologiesen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectElderly Peopleen_US
dc.subjectLonelinessen_US
dc.subjectRest Homesen_US
dc.subjectMediaen_US
dc.subjectTraditional Mediaen_US
dc.subjectNew Mediaen_US
dc.titleElderly People's Choice of Media and their Perceived State of Lonelinessen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication

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