What Constitutes a Helpful Health-Related Answer?

IF 4.5 3区 管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Journal of Global Information Management Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI:10.4018/jgim.344044
Dongmei Han, Lifeng He, Wenfei Zhao, Xiaohang Zhou
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Given the unwieldy glut of information in online health question-answer (Q&A) service, it is essential to understand what constitutes helpful answers in the medical domain. Despite the fact that studies have examined the impacts of answer content factors on answer helpfulness, there are two gaps that need further analysis. First, the empirical results of the existing relevant studies on the effect of answer emotion are inconsistent. Second, prior studies only have examined the independent impacts of answer content factors and question content cues on answer helpfulness. To fill this gap, a research model reflecting the impacts of emotional content and question-answer congruence on answer helpfulness was developed and empirically examined. Our empirical analyses confirm that emotional content and answer helpfulness are related to one another in the form of an inverted U-shape and indicate that two types of question-answer congruence (emotional intensity congruence and linguistic style matching) positively affect answer helpfulness. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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什么是与健康有关的有益回答?
鉴于在线健康问答(Q&A)服务中信息泛滥,了解什么是医疗领域的有用答案至关重要。尽管已有研究探讨了答案内容因素对答案有用性的影响,但仍有两个空白点需要进一步分析。首先,现有相关研究对答案情感影响的实证结果并不一致。其次,之前的研究只考察了答案内容因素和问题内容线索对答案有用性的独立影响。为了填补这一空白,我们建立了一个反映情感内容和问答一致性对回答有用性影响的研究模型,并进行了实证检验。我们的实证分析证实,情感内容和答案有用性以倒 U 型的形式相互关联,并表明两种类型的问答一致性(情感强度一致性和语言风格匹配)会对答案有用性产生积极影响。本文讨论了其理论和实践意义。
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