| With the increasingly serious aging in China,many problems of the elderly have been paid more and more attention.However,as a widespread phenomenon in the world,the deception of the elderly has not received enough attention.And compared with the relevant psychological research progress abroad,the psychological research on the deceived of the elderly in China is not comprehensive enough.The main purpose of this study is to solve the above research problems,the research purposes are as follows:The main results are as follows:(1)to understand the current situation of deception of the elderly in China,to understand which kind or which scams they are most likely to be affected by,and to explore the differences of different types of elderly in demographic variables,interpersonal trust,loneliness,social support and cognitive function;(2)to understand how interpersonal trust,loneliness,social support and cognitive function affect the deception of the elderly;(3)whether cognitive function plays an intermediary role in the influence of deception on the elderly.As there are few psychological studies on the deception of the elderly in China,this paper first refers to the deception questionnaire used in foreign research,and then,after consulting the literature and the discussion between teachers and students majoring in psychology,delete some of the types of scams in the original questionnaire that are not applicable to the Chinese cultural environment,and add a total of 15 types of scams that are suitable for the domestic environment and are more common among the Chinese elderly,in order to understand the general situation of the deception of the elderly in China.Such as which scams have been encountered,which scams have been deceived,and how much is the economic loss of the scam.Secondly,demographic variables,loneliness,interpersonal trust scale,social support scale and basic cognitive ability test were used to evaluate demographic variables,loneliness,interpersonal trust,social support and cognitive function(perceptual speed,working memory span,situational memory and speech comprehension).Secondly,on this basis,demographic basic information questionnaire,UCLA Loneliness scale,interpersonal Trust scale,self-designed Social support scale and Basic Cognitive Ability Test were used to evaluate the demographic variables,loneliness,interpersonal trust,social support and cognitive function of the elderly.Finally,it discusses the differences of the abovementioned factors among the victims of different scams,and how the above-mentioned factors affect the deception of the elderly.The main conclusions of this study are as follows:1.The health food scam is the most common scam affecting the elderly in China,and the age of the victims of the health product scam is significantly higher than that of other groups.2.There are significant differences in loneliness,cognitive function(perceptual speed,working memory span)and social support(family emotional support)among different types of elderly people,especially between the victims of health product fraud and the elderly who have not been deceived.3.Loneliness and family social support can directly predict the deception of the elderly,the stronger the sense of loneliness,the lower the emotional support of the family,the elderly are more likely to be deceived.4.Working memory span plays an intermediary role in the influence of family emotional support on the deception of the elderly,that is,the higher the emotion of the family,the higher the working memory span of the elderly,good working memory ability can effectively prevent the elderly from being deceived. |
