Kim Sojung Claire, Shah Dhavan V, Namkoong Kang, McTavish Fiona M, Gustafson David H
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS), University of Wisconsin-Madison.
J Comput Mediat Commun. 2013 Jan;18(2):98-118. doi: 10.1111/jcc4.12002.
This study attempts to examine the role of social support perception and emotional well-being on online information seeking among cancer patients within the context of CHESS, a well-established Interactive Cancer Communication System (ICCS). Factor and regression analyses conducted among 231 breast cancer patients revealed that social support perception and emotional well-being interacted with each other to influence online health information seeking. Patients with low social support perception and high emotional well-being were most likely to seek health information, whereas patients with high social support perception and high emotional well-being sought out the same information least. Practical implications of the study findings were further discussed.
本研究试图在一个成熟的交互式癌症沟通系统(ICCS)——CHESS的背景下,考察社会支持感知和情绪幸福感在癌症患者在线信息搜索中的作用。对231名乳腺癌患者进行的因子分析和回归分析表明,社会支持感知和情绪幸福感相互作用,影响在线健康信息搜索。社会支持感知低且情绪幸福感高的患者最有可能搜索健康信息,而社会支持感知高且情绪幸福感高的患者搜索相同信息的可能性最小。本文进一步讨论了研究结果的实际意义。