Seeking professional help in health crises: The impact of cognitive factors, discrete emotions, and eHealth information seeking on mental health communication.

IF 2.5 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Journal of Health Psychology Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI:10.1177/13591053241274460

Yen-I Lee, Yang Cheng, Wen Zhao

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Abstract

A common challenge facing public health practitioners and communication scholars is how to best change perceptions and increase favorable attitudes and awareness of health recommendations, such as help-seeking about depression. Given the need to identify persuasive ways to communicate depression, this study examined how discrete emotions, cognition, and engaging eHealth information-seeking behavior affected US adults' intentions regarding help-seeking about depression. The results from an online survey of 1422 US adults revealed (1) elated emotion and loving emotion; (2) depression consciousness; (3) attitude toward seeking help from mental health services; and (4) eHealth information-seeking significantly predicted intention to seek help from professionals. In addition, depression consciousness, attitude toward seeking help from mental health services, and eHealth information-seeking acted as sequential mediators for the relationship between elated emotion, loving emotion, and behavioral intention. Implications for health communication and depression communication research and practice are discussed.

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在健康危机中寻求专业帮助：认知因素、离散情绪和电子健康信息搜索对心理健康交流的影响。

公共卫生从业人员和传播学者面临的一个共同挑战是，如何以最佳方式改变人们对健康建议的看法，并提高人们对健康建议的良好态度和认识，例如对抑郁症的求助。鉴于需要确定有说服力的抑郁症传播方式，本研究考察了离散情绪、认知和参与电子健康信息寻求行为如何影响美国成年人对抑郁症的求助意向。对 1422 名美国成年人的在线调查结果显示：（1）欣喜情绪和爱的情绪；（2）抑郁意识；（3）向心理健康服务机构求助的态度；（4）电子健康信息寻求行为显著预测了向专业人士求助的意向。此外，抑郁意识、向心理健康服务机构求助的态度和电子健康信息寻求是欣快情绪、关爱情绪和行为意向之间关系的顺序中介。本文探讨了健康传播和抑郁传播研究与实践的意义。

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Journal of Health Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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期刊介绍： ournal of Health Psychology is an international peer-reviewed journal that aims to support and help shape research in health psychology from around the world. It provides a platform for traditional empirical analyses as well as more qualitative and/or critically oriented approaches. It also addresses the social contexts in which psychological and health processes are embedded. Studies published in this journal are required to obtain ethical approval from an Institutional Review Board. Such approval must include informed, signed consent by all research participants. Any manuscript not containing an explicit statement concerning ethical approval and informed consent will not be considered.