[Purpose/significance] As China has been entering the aging society, the elderly began to use mobile social software to enrich their lives. WeChat has become the most popular social software for them, and it is a new issue to analyze their using behaviors. [Method/process] From the perspective of harmonious information ecology with four elements of information, information man, information environment and information technology, and based on the UTAUT model, this paper establishes the research model of the influencing factors of elderly WeChat users' willingness, and uses the structural equation to make a practical analysis on the data. [Result/conclusion] The results show that:the four elements all have the positive impact on the elderly WeChat users' willingness; information man has the greatest impact, followed by the information environment and information technology, then the information. The study is of practical significance to understand the characteristics of the information behaviors of the elderly and to formulate the relevant social guidance policies for the elderly in the development of China's aging society.
Li Jiaxing
,
Wang Xiwei
,
Li Shimeng
,
Zhang Liu
. Research on Influencing Factors of the Elderly WeChat Users' Willingness[J]. Library and Information Service, 2017
, 61(15)
: 25
-33
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DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2017.15.003
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