Chen Liang, Guo Yu, Shi Jingyuan
1 Lab for Big Data and Communication, School of Communication and Design, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
2 Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau SAR, China.
Telemed J E Health. 2019 Jul;25(7):655-659. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2018.0136. Epub 2018 Aug 14.
Background:Due to a double stigma against HIV/AIDS and homosexuality, gay men living with HIV/AIDS (GMLHA) have used social media to exchange social support. The current study aims to examine the influence of perceived threat on seeking social support on social media among Chinese GMLHA.
Methods:First, Weibo posts from 133 GMLHA were content analyzed to identify the perceived severity of HIV infection and perceived severity of stigma, as well as their social support seeking on Weibo. Then, a 2 × 2 (perceived severity of HIV infection [present, absent] × perceived severity of stigma [present, absent]) between-subject multivariate analysis of variance with social support seeking as the dependent variable was performed.
Results:Perceived severity of HIV infection and perceived severity of stigma had main effects on different kinds of social support seeking. Moreover, GMLHA who expressed both perceived severity of HIV infection and perceived severity of stigma on Weibo posted the greatest number of emotional support-seeking messages.
Conclusions:This study revealed that perceived threat was one of the motivations of GMLHA to seek online social support.
由于对艾滋病毒/艾滋病和同性恋的双重污名化,感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的男同性恋者(GMLHA)利用社交媒体来交流社会支持。本研究旨在探讨感知威胁对中国感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的男同性恋者在社交媒体上寻求社会支持的影响。
首先,对133名感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的男同性恋者的微博帖子进行内容分析,以确定对艾滋病毒感染的感知严重程度和污名化的感知严重程度,以及他们在微博上寻求社会支持的情况。然后,以寻求社会支持为因变量,进行了一项2×2(艾滋病毒感染的感知严重程度[存在、不存在]×污名化的感知严重程度[存在、不存在])的组间多变量方差分析。
艾滋病毒感染的感知严重程度和污名化的感知严重程度对不同类型的社会支持寻求有主效应。此外,在微博上既表达了对艾滋病毒感染的感知严重程度又表达了污名化的感知严重程度的感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的男同性恋者发布的寻求情感支持的信息数量最多。
本研究表明,感知威胁是感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的男同性恋者寻求在线社会支持的动机之一。