Table 4.

An overview of the personal factors related to technology use among low-income older adults.

Dimensions of Personal Determinant	Factor	Study
Sociodemographic characteristics	Age	[55,56,60]* [62]; n.s.
	Ethnicity	[55,56,60,66]* [57]; n.s.
	Education	[55,57,60,62]*
	Income	[55,56,60]* [62]; n.s.
	Experience	[57,62]*
	Cultural background +	[59] (q)
	Health knowledge and attitudes	[55]*
	Health condition/history	[55,57] n.s. [56,60,66];*n.s.
	Gender	[62]* [55,56,60]; n.s.
	Language	[56] n.s.
	Employment	[55] n.s.
Cognitive Evaluations	Perceived benefits (health)	[19]^ [61,64,70]; (q)
	Perceived benefits (mobility)	[68] (q)
	Perceived benefits (social participation)	[58,68,69] (q)
	Perceived benefits (self-actualization) +	[58,67,69] (q)
	Perceived benefits (monetary)	[69] (q)
	Self-efficacy	[62]* [60]; n.s. [68,69]; (q)
	Perceived usefulness	[65] (q)
	Perceived ease of use	[58,65,70] (q)
	Perceived risks +	[64,65,68,70] (q)
	Distrust +	[64,69] (q)
	Perceived cost +	[[68], [69], [70]] (q)
	Perceived threat to autonomy +	[58] (q)
Affective responses	Computer anxiety	[55,62]* [58,69]; (q)
	Aging anxiety	[62]*
	Interest	[70] (q)
	Freedom to express	[67] (q)
	Feeling productive and useful	[61] (q)
	Hope	[61] (q)
	Pride	[61] (q)
	Belonging	[62] n.s.

Note. *significant, n.s. nonsignificant, ^no correlation conducted, + aggregated and self-coded, (q) qualitative data (Refer Appendix B. Table B1 and Table B2 for details).