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An Analysis of the Middle-aged Adults’ Mobile Information Behavior Focused on their Demographic Characteristics

Heesop Kim 1,  Mi Sook, Lee 1,  Jiwoong Seo 1

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the middle-aged adults’ mobile information behavior focused on their demographic characteristics. To achieve the aim of this study data were collected from 50 to 64 years old middle-aged adults who live in different size of cities and towns in Korea using self-designed questionnaire through online and offline survey. Gender, academic background, income level, size of residential zone, physical condition, and occupation were adopted as demographic characteristics, and type of mobile contents use, hour of mobile use, ability of mobile use, persistency of mobile use, and usability of mobile were used as the mobile information behavior in this study. Total of 191 valid data were analysed using SPSS Ver. 21. The results of this empirical study revealed that there exist a significant difference between some of their demographical characteristics (e.g., academic backgrounds, income level, and occupation) and mobile information behaviors particularly in their contents use.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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