Implications of fear, anxiety, and shame for social health websites

Health information seeking (HIS) and emotional support seeking (ESS) for medical conditions are widespread, self-guided online activities that happen concurrently on social health websites. Appraisal and coping theory suggests that these activities may be caused by negative emotions that users exper...

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Auteurs principaux: Friederici, N, Hsieh, G, Lapinski, M
Format: Conference item
Publié: All Academic, Inc. 2012