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Help or Hurt? Why We Select and How We Process Online Social Information About Health.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Help or Hurt? Why We Select and How We Process Online Social Information About Health./
Author:	Hocevar, Kristin Page.
Description:	1 online resource (193 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-12A(E).
Subject:	Communication. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355271348

Help or Hurt? Why We Select and How We Process Online Social Information About Health.
Hocevar, Kristin Page.

Help or Hurt? Why We Select and How We Process Online Social Information About Health. - 1 online resource (193 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

Health information is increasingly being shared online not just by credentialed sources such as physicians or health organizations, but also by patients with personal experience with a health concern. This dissertation proposes a new measure of vigilance-avoidance, or tendency to approach or avoid threatening stimuli, in order to understand how individual differences in this personality characteristic might influence selection and processing of online information about health. Two online experiments focusing on the topic of breast cancer were conducted to explore how individual levels of vigilance-avoidance moderate the effects of health message threat, community endorsement (e.g., online recommendations), and source type (patient- or physician-generated information) on selective exposure, perceptions of credibility, and helpfulness ratings. Results of these studies indicate that vigilance-avoidance interacts with these source, message, and community characteristics to influence both online health information selection behaviors and evaluations of online health information.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355271348Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Communication.
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Electronic books.

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