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Abstract
Abstract Personalization strategy in commercial contexts has often been criticized for eliciting individuals’ reactance. Will this happen to physician–patient communication in online medical consultations (OMCs)? Two experiments attempted to probe the direct, indirect, and conditional effects of personalization on reactance in OMC. Specifically, perceived threats to freedom and perceived physician caring were examined as two mediators underlying the relationship between personalization and reactance. Health topic sensitivity was investigated as a moderator. Results from both studies revealed that there was no main effect of personalization on reactance, yet personalization induced perceived threats to freedom and perceived physician caring, which affected reactance in a way that might cancel out each other. The effects of personalization (versus depersonalization) on perceived threats to freedom and reactance were more salient at the lower level of health topic sensitivity. These suggest that personalization with its two-sided nature exerts both desired and undesired influences and health topic sensitivity can be a prominent contextual factor in personalization reactance during OMC.
期刊介绍:
ACS Applied Energy Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important energy applications.