Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic required people to adapt rapidly to the digital transformation of society for social survival, which highlighted the divide between those who can and cannot digitalize. Previous studies investigated factors promoting adaptation to digitalization; however, outcomes from adaptati...
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| author | Yumi Hamamoto Yumi Hamamoto Yumi Hamamoto Akio Honda Naoki Miura Azumi Tanabe-Ishibashi Azumi Tanabe-Ishibashi Kentaro Oba Ryo Ishibashi Ryo Ishibashi Motoaki Sugiura Motoaki Sugiura |
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic required people to adapt rapidly to the digital transformation of society for social survival, which highlighted the divide between those who can and cannot digitalize. Previous studies investigated factors promoting adaptation to digitalization; however, outcomes from adaptation to a digitalized society have not been sorted into a parsimonious model, even though there should be several multifaceted outcomes (e.g., usefulness, economic profit, and social outcome), each of which is promoted by different factors. If the effects of individual background factors can be revealed, including the technical-environment and survival-relevant personality in relation to each outcome, it would help in the creation of a society where more people play an active role by adapting to digitalization. This study aimed to construct such a model by identifying major outcomes gained in a digitalized society and investigating individual factors that contribute to the degree of gain of each of these outcomes. Five dimensions were identified by online surveys and factor analysis: Socialization (outcomes derived from new social connections created online), Space–time (freedom from time and space constraints), Economics (monetary outcome by using digital services), and Information (ease and amount of acquisition of information) were the positive outcomes, whereas Loneliness (feelings of not being able to keep up with digitization) was identified as a negative outcome. We determined that technical-environmental factors (e.g., familiarity with digital techniques and the amount of money that can be used for digitalization) facilitated gain in four positive outcomes. Notably, leadership and conscientiousness facilitated the Socialization gain while etiquette suppressed it. These factors’ effects would reflect the importance of a personality trait prioritizing construction and maintenance of social relationships. This study implies that material outcomes (i.e., Space–time, Economics, and Information) are promoted by technical-environmental support, whereas social outcomes may additionally require motivation and a positive attitude for purposeful social engagement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-64f72cf374844b668007ecd0c5a052ed2023-08-18T15:50:25ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-08-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.12301921230192Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemicYumi Hamamoto0Yumi Hamamoto1Yumi Hamamoto2Akio Honda3Naoki Miura4Azumi Tanabe-Ishibashi5Azumi Tanabe-Ishibashi6Kentaro Oba7Ryo Ishibashi8Ryo Ishibashi9Motoaki Sugiura10Motoaki Sugiura11Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomDepartment of Human Brain Science, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, JapanJapan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, JapanDepartment of Information Design, Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology, Fukuroi, JapanFaculty of Engineering, Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai, JapanDepartment of Human Brain Science, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, JapanInternational Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, JapanDepartment of Human Brain Science, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, JapanDepartment of Human Brain Science, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, JapanCenter for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Osaka, JapanDepartment of Human Brain Science, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, JapanInternational Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, JapanThe COVID-19 pandemic required people to adapt rapidly to the digital transformation of society for social survival, which highlighted the divide between those who can and cannot digitalize. Previous studies investigated factors promoting adaptation to digitalization; however, outcomes from adaptation to a digitalized society have not been sorted into a parsimonious model, even though there should be several multifaceted outcomes (e.g., usefulness, economic profit, and social outcome), each of which is promoted by different factors. If the effects of individual background factors can be revealed, including the technical-environment and survival-relevant personality in relation to each outcome, it would help in the creation of a society where more people play an active role by adapting to digitalization. This study aimed to construct such a model by identifying major outcomes gained in a digitalized society and investigating individual factors that contribute to the degree of gain of each of these outcomes. Five dimensions were identified by online surveys and factor analysis: Socialization (outcomes derived from new social connections created online), Space–time (freedom from time and space constraints), Economics (monetary outcome by using digital services), and Information (ease and amount of acquisition of information) were the positive outcomes, whereas Loneliness (feelings of not being able to keep up with digitization) was identified as a negative outcome. We determined that technical-environmental factors (e.g., familiarity with digital techniques and the amount of money that can be used for digitalization) facilitated gain in four positive outcomes. Notably, leadership and conscientiousness facilitated the Socialization gain while etiquette suppressed it. These factors’ effects would reflect the importance of a personality trait prioritizing construction and maintenance of social relationships. This study implies that material outcomes (i.e., Space–time, Economics, and Information) are promoted by technical-environmental support, whereas social outcomes may additionally require motivation and a positive attitude for purposeful social engagement.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1230192/fulldigitalizationCOVID-19socialonline surveysurvival |
| spellingShingle | Yumi Hamamoto Yumi Hamamoto Yumi Hamamoto Akio Honda Naoki Miura Azumi Tanabe-Ishibashi Azumi Tanabe-Ishibashi Kentaro Oba Ryo Ishibashi Ryo Ishibashi Motoaki Sugiura Motoaki Sugiura Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic Frontiers in Psychology digitalization COVID-19 social online survey survival |
| title | Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full | Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_short | Five major outcomes of digitalization: relevance of a survival personality type during COVID-19 pandemic |
| title_sort | five major outcomes of digitalization relevance of a survival personality type during covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | digitalization COVID-19 social online survey survival |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1230192/full |
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