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ArticleJournal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society2025

Technophobia Mediates the Associations Between Age, Education Level, and Readiness to Adopt New (Health) Technology Among Aging Adults.

Urška Smrke, Tanja Špes, Izidor Mlakar, Bojan Musil, Nejc Plohl

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Article in Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Urška SmrkeFaculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0003-3516-0429
Tanja ŠpesDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
Izidor MlakarFaculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
Bojan MusilDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
Nejc PlohlDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current research on technophobia and readiness to adopt new technology in the aging population is often limited to the context of specific technologies and treat

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AgingBiomedical TechnologyEducational StatusAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAge FactorsFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSloveniaSurveys and Questionnairesassistive technologymediation analysistechnologytechnology adoptiontechnophobiawell-being

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PMID39177432
PMCPMC11827277

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