  This work reports on a cross-sectional study on device proficiency, support
availability and cybersecurity competence of older adult users of smartphones
and/or tablets. Results indicate that cybersecurity competence is associated
with both device proficiency and support availability although the variance
explained is relatively low. There were no differences in cybersecurity
competence between users and non-users of either mobile devices. Users of both
smartphones and tablets had significantly higher device proficiency than
non-users. Users of tablets had significantly higher support availability than
non-users while there were no significant differences between users and
non-users of smartphones.
