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When technology meets aging: the paradoxical association between cognitive appraisal of AI and older employees’ successful aging at work
Originally published 2026-10-07 · Frontiers in Public Health
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1956559 ↗
AI / system type
Older workers’ challenge and threat appraisals of workplace AI
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Older workers’ challenge and threat appraisals of workplace AI. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings older workers’ autonomy and successful aging during AI adoption into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers employee questionnaire study evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is older workers’ autonomy and successful aging during AI adoption. Source setting or population: 558 employees aged 45 and older in enterprises in China. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
How can AI change respect the experience and independence of older colleagues?
This employee questionnaire study examines older workers’ autonomy and successful aging during AI adoption. Its TRICK home is Respect, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
558 employees aged 45 and older in enterprises in China
Age / stage: 45 years and older
Read with three questions
- How can AI change respect the experience and independence of older colleagues?
- What do this study’s design and population — 558 employees aged 45 and older in enterprises in China — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering older workers’ autonomy and successful aging during AI adoption, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
The source reports correlational pathways, not causal effects; older-worker findings cannot be assumed to apply to all workers.
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Yujie Hao; Jiayi Wang (2026). When technology meets aging: the paradoxical association between cognitive appraisal of AI and older employees’ successful aging at work Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1956559
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