The Underlying Mechanisms of Active and Passive Cancer Information Behaviors: A Comparative Study Between Hong Kong and the United States.

IF 3 3区医学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Health Communication Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-11-22 DOI:10.1080/10410236.2023.2286405

Zhi Lin, Xiaohui Wang

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Although increasingly popular, theoretical frameworks describing complex and multidimensional cancer information behaviors remain limited. In response, this study developed a context-specific model by integrating cancer worry into the situational theory of problem solving (STOPS) to explain individuals' active and passive information behaviors. An online survey conducted in Hong Kong (N = 593) and the United States (N = 625) revealed that STOPS factors play different roles in explaining active and passive information behaviors, with the referent criterion and situation motivation being the dominant factors of active and passive information behaviors, respectively. Cancer worry partly mediated the relationship between such behaviors and situational motivation. While the effect of STOPS factors can be generally replicated across Hong Kong and U.S. contexts, the effects of cancer worry cannot. Altogether, our study has answered the call for research on the boundary conditions of STOPS and a more systematic understanding of cancer information behaviors.

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主动与被动癌症信息行为的内在机制:香港与美国的比较研究。

尽管越来越流行，但描述复杂和多维癌症信息行为的理论框架仍然有限。为此，本研究将癌症担忧整合到问题解决情境理论(situational theory of problem solving, STOPS)中，建立了一个情境化模型来解释个体的主动和被动信息行为。在香港(N = 593)和美国(N = 625)进行的一项在线调查显示，stop因素在解释主动信息行为和被动信息行为中发挥着不同的作用，参考标准和情境动机分别是主动信息行为和被动信息行为的主导因素。癌症担忧在一定程度上介导了这种行为与情境动机之间的关系。虽然stop因素的影响可以在香港和美国的环境中普遍复制，但对癌症的担忧却不能。总之，我们的研究回应了对stop边界条件的研究和对癌症信息行为更系统的理解的呼吁。

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Health Communication Multiple-

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8.20

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10.30%

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184

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