The impact of middle-aged women’s digital literacy capabilities on women’s empowerment

This study was conducted with the view that specific measures are needed to eliminate the digital gap and strengthen digital literacy capabilities among middle-aged women. The analysis data was collected through a survey of 100 middle-aged women living in S-si, Gyeonggi-do, who were selected through random sampling. The survey was conducted on middle-aged women visiting public institutions in S City for one month from January 6 to January 30, 2025. As a result of the survey responses, excluding insincere responses and responses with many missing values, the final analyzed respondent data was 40 people. The analysis method was descriptive statistical analysis to determine the current level of middle-aged women's digital literacy capabilities and women's empowerment, and Pearson's correlation analysis was conducted to determine the correlation between major variables and subfactors. In addition, multiple regression analysis was conducted to determine the impact of middle-aged women's digital literacy competency level on women's empowerment. As a result of the analysis, first, as a result of analyzing the correlation between middle-aged women's digital literacy competency and the sub-factors of the women's empowerment variable, a correlation was shown with digital literacy competency, excluding the self-trust factor among the women's empowerment sub-factors. Second, among the sub-factors of digital competency, which are digital literacy technical competency, digital literacy utilization competency, and digital literacy mind competency, digital literacy competency was found to have a statistically significant influence on women's empowerment.