Susceptibility to Scams in Older Black and White Adults

Frontiers in Psychology

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S. Duke Han¹  Lisa L. Barnes⁵  Sue Leurgans⁶  Lei Yu⁶  Christopher C. Stewart⁸  Melissa Lamar⁵  Crystal M. Glover⁵  David A. Bennett⁶  Patricia A. Boyle⁵ 

[1] Department of Family Medicine, University of Southern California, United States;Department of Neurology, University of Southern California, United States;Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, United States;School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, United States;Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, United States;Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, United States;Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, United States;Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, United States

关键词: susceptibility to scams;    race;    disparities;    contextual;    affective;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.685258

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Previous reports on racial differences in scam susceptibility have yielded mixed findings, and few studies have examined reasons for any observed race differences. Older Black and White participants without dementia ( N = 592) from the Minority Aging Research Study and the Rush Memory and Aging Project who completed a susceptibility to scam questionnaire and other measures were matched according to age, education, sex, and global cognition using Mahalanobis distance. In adjusted models, older Black adults were less susceptible to scams than older White adults (Beta = −0.2496, SE = 0.0649, p = 0.0001). Contextual factors did not mediate and affective factors did not moderate this association. Analyses of specific items revealed Black adults had greater knowledge of scam targeting of older adults and were less likely to pick up the phone for unidentified callers. Older Black adults are less susceptible to scams than demographically-matched older White adults, although the reasons remain unknown.

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