Dang Qiong, Lin Weiying, Li Yifei
Center for Digitalized Culture and Media, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
School of Journalism and Communication, Guangxi University, Nanning, China.
Front Public Health. 2025 Jul 7;13:1516225. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1516225. eCollection 2025.
The health information shared by parents with their offspring, while originating from a place of care, has in practice led to resistance from the offspring. This has become a pressing issue in the field of health communication in contemporary China that requires urgent attention and resolution. Therefore, the study aims to explore how information factors and family factors together affect offspring's avoidance of health information shared by parents, within the context of the unique characteristics of social and family relationships in China. This study, based on the theoretical framework of the information acceptance model (IAM) and family communication patterns (FCPs), takes offspring under 30 years old as the research object, analyzes 1,505 valid questionnaires using SEM. The results revealed that within FCP, conversation orientation negatively impacts offspring's health information avoidance (HIA) behavior, while conformity orientation positively influences this behavior. An important finding is that parental authority and discourse power are the most significant determinants of offspring's HIA behavior. Additionally, the quality of health information and source credibility each positively affect offspring's perceived usefulness of the health information. Moreover, both perceived usefulness and attitude have a significant association with HIA behavior, with attitude mediating the relationship between perceived usefulness and HIA behavior. An interesting finding is that offspring's emotional responses and subjective attitudes play a critical role in the health information decision-making process. This study addresses the lack of focus on family communication patterns and information systems in health communication research and provides new insights for future studies.
父母与子女分享的健康信息，虽然源于关爱之情，但在实际中却引发了子女的抵触情绪。这已成为当代中国健康传播领域一个亟待关注和解决的紧迫问题。因此，本研究旨在探讨在中国社会和家庭关系的独特背景下，信息因素和家庭因素如何共同影响子女对父母所分享健康信息的回避行为。本研究基于信息接受模型（IAM）和家庭沟通模式（FCPs）的理论框架，以30岁以下的子女为研究对象，运用结构方程模型（SEM）对1505份有效问卷进行分析。结果显示，在家庭沟通模式中，对话导向对子女的健康信息回避（HIA）行为有负面影响，而一致性导向则对该行为有正面影响。一个重要发现是，父母的权威和话语权是子女健康信息回避行为的最显著决定因素。此外，健康信息的质量和来源可信度均对子女感知到的健康信息有用性有积极影响。而且，感知有用性和态度均与健康信息回避行为有显著关联，态度在感知有用性与健康信息回避行为之间起中介作用。一个有趣的发现是，子女的情绪反应和主观态度在健康信息决策过程中起着关键作用。本研究弥补了健康传播研究中对家庭沟通模式和信息系统关注不足的缺陷，并为未来研究提供了新的见解。
