Within the framework of the master thesis, I studied the relations towards social robotics in the connection with the assistance to persons in the late adulthood from the perspective (a) of the extended theory of planned behavior and (b) the grounded theory of the problems sensed currently. In the study, there were 238 participants. There were 158 participants who could be classified in the developmental period of transition to adulthood (students of different fields of study) and who filled in the online questionnaire. The other 82 participants who could be classified in the developmental period of late adulthood (retirees) filled in the questionnaire in a classical paper-pencil form. An originally designed questionnaire was used (Malovrh and Rus, 2019). It was titled The Analysis of the Model of the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior in the Field of Social Robotics (in Connection with the Assistance to Persons in Late Adulthood). In the process, the construction of the questionnaire mainly followed the directives which were determined by the author of the theory of planned behavior Icek Ajzen (200 and 20013). The results showed that all the individually discussed predictors of the extended model connect with behavioral and implementation purposes positively and significantly. In addition, a significant difference in the sensed behavioral control towards social robotics with regards to the gender and the selected age brackets emerged, as well as a significant difference in the attitudes towards social robotics with regards to the gender. The analysis of the answers according to the procedure of the grounded theory showed that the participants within the selected field sense technical problems, the problem of inaccessibility of robotic technology, the problem of rejecting the technology by the elderly, and the problem of the “unethical” relationship a robot – the elderly. The ascertainments of the research for the master’s thesis offer the proposals for further practical work in the field of social robotics which will be intended to the users in the period of late adulthood.
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