Health CommunicationPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-01-03DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2447107
Soo Jung Hong, Hichang Cho
{"title":"Extending and Testing Protection Motivation Theory in the Context of COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Technology: A Comparison of South Korea and the United States.","authors":"Soo Jung Hong, Hichang Cho","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2447107","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2447107","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study applies protection motivation theory (PMT) to the COVID-19 contact-tracing context by including privacy concerns, collective efficacy, and a mediator (fear of COVID-19) and tests it in the US and South Korea. The study uses a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach and a sample of 418 Americans and 444 South Koreans. According to the results, fear was positively associated with adoption intentions in the US sample but not in the Korean sample. Coping appraisals positively affected adoption intentions in both samples. However, while all types of coping appraisals were significant in the Korean sample, response efficacy was the only significant predictor among US participants. Privacy concerns were negatively associated with adoption intentions in the US sample, but not in the Korean sample. The results indicate that differences exist in the mediating role of fear connecting threat appraisals and adoption intentions in both countries. These findings hold important implications for future studies in AI-based health communication, especially in the areas of privacy management, protection motivation, and diverse cultural contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2240-2253"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142921534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-01-05DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2447099
Tara G McManus, Courtney Rilinger
{"title":"The Influence of Attributions, Emotions, and Sexual Health Knowledge on Support Provision to Friends with Sexual Health Uncertainties.","authors":"Tara G McManus, Courtney Rilinger","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2447099","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2447099","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When experiencing sexual health uncertainties, emerging adults often rely on friends for support; however, the support provided is not always helpful. This study situates support in response to uncertainty within appraisal and attribution theories to explain nurturant, informational, and tangible support provision. Study 1 coded 441 participants' responses to open-ended questions about a recent conversation about a friend's sexual health uncertainty. It revealed that stability and responsibility attributions were made, and fear was the most common emotion described. Desire to provide support and knowledge also were prominent themes. Study 2's online survey of 248 emerging adults indicated that the more support providers assigned blame for the sexual health uncertainty to the friend, the more fear support providers experienced, yet the more fear experienced, the more nurturant, informational, and tangible support they provided. Perceived sexual health knowledge diminished the association between blame attributions and support provision.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2207-2227"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142931379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-01-03DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2448702
Xin Li, Kaibin Xu
{"title":"Enacting an Online Depression Community in China: The Community of Practice Perspective.","authors":"Xin Li, Kaibin Xu","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2448702","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2448702","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The dilemma of disclosing one's illness experiences in real life has led to a proliferation of online health communities. It is worth exploring the nature of such communities. Drawing on the community of practice (CoP) theory, this article explores how members enact online health communities by studying the support group \"Philosophical Treatment of Depression,\" one of the largest online depression communities in China. The findings show that participants enacted the CoP by constructing negative individual identities and positive collective identities, participating and engaging in the common enterprise, and building a shared repertoire. Constructing negative individual identities and positive collective identities enhanced group cohesion and clarified community goals. Participation and mutual engagement facilitated members' sharing of illness experiences and seeking/providing support in the community. Sharing treatment and coping experiences and tactics contributed to a shared repertoire that sustains the community. This study provides insights into understanding the nature of online health communities. It also has practical implications for social support to people living with depression.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2290-2299"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142921528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-02-07DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2025.2456490
Yao Yao, Jian Raymond Rui
{"title":"Thinking Outside of Yourself: The Potential of Awe in Mitigating Psychological Reactance Via Inspiring Self-Transcendence.","authors":"Yao Yao, Jian Raymond Rui","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2025.2456490","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2025.2456490","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Awe, a self-transcendent emotion that can transform our egocentric perspective, has the potential to reduce the resistance to freedom-threatening messages. However, no research has yet offered empirical evidence in health and environmental communication contexts. The present research aims to bridge this gap by explicating whether and how awe alleviates psychological reactance induced by threat-to-freedom messages. We conducted a survey (<i>N</i> = 353, Study 1) and an online experiment (<i>N</i> = 419, Study 2) to examine whether trait awe and video-induced state awe can improve persuasion outcomes by mitigating psychological reactance. Results showed that trait awe was negatively associated with trait reactance. Additionally, state awe dampened state reactance by elevating self-transcendence and diminishing the perceptions of threat to freedom and reactance, which improved one's attitudes toward the message advocacy and behavioral intentions. However, this effect was only supported with the issue of climate change rather than sun protection. Theoretical contributions and practical implications for leveraging awe appeal in strategic communication are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2365-2374"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143364560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2024-12-23DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2442684
Charee M Thompson, Emily Gerlikovski, Sara Babu, Maeve McGuire, Isabella Robieson, Annalisa Ranallo
{"title":"A Longitudinal Interview Study of People with Long COVID: Uncertainties, Liminality, and Processes of Becoming.","authors":"Charee M Thompson, Emily Gerlikovski, Sara Babu, Maeve McGuire, Isabella Robieson, Annalisa Ranallo","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2442684","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2442684","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Current estimates indicate around 6% of US adults have experienced long COVID symptoms. Given the novelty of both COVID and long COVID, those who continue to be ill after an initial SARS-CoV-2 infection have little precedence on which to rely when navigating the medical (e.g. diagnoses, treatment options), social (e.g. others' reactions, isolation), and personal (e.g. roles, identities) sources of uncertainty that accompany the illness. In this study, we explore uncertainty as a process of <i>liminality</i>, a heuristically useful lens for demonstrating how uncertainties intertwine, compound, contradict, and change across time, and how people are continually in a process of \"becoming.\" We interviewed 19 people with long COVID five times during the middle stages of the pandemic (Summer 2021 to Summer 2022; 89 total interviews). Findings illustrate how liminality is a body-self dialectic characterized by physical changes that bear upon valued identities and how this dialectic is shaped by a sociocultural and historical context comprising medical, social, political, and mediated spheres of life. We discuss the contributions of this research for theorizing about uncertainty, conducting longitudinal qualitative research, and living with chronic illness.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2143-2154"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142876866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2025.2449726
Renee E Magnan, Linda D Cameron, Allison A Temourian, Robin L Rubey, Anna V Song
{"title":"Cognitive and Affective Responses to the U.S. FDA E-Cigarette Addiction Warning and Advertisements among Young Adults in California: Product Design, Imagery, and Use.","authors":"Renee E Magnan, Linda D Cameron, Allison A Temourian, Robin L Rubey, Anna V Song","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2025.2449726","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2025.2449726","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study tested contextual features (product design, imagery, and use) of e-cigarette advertisements on responses to the mandated U.S. FDA addiction text warning. In a within-subjects experimental design, young adults (aged 18-24) living in California were categorized into those who use e-cigarettes (<i>n</i> = 149), use cigarettes (<i>n</i> = 66), and dual use (<i>n</i> = 204). They provided affective and cognitive responses to the addiction warning and e-cigarette products in advertisements. Cognitive and affective responses overall were moderately strong, and this pattern was generally consistent across product design and imagery. Those who use cigarettes (versus dual use) reported stronger feelings that they learned new information and lower perceptions that e-cigarettes help reduce cigarette consumption. Those who smoke also reported greater worry, discouragement, and perceived health benefits associated with e-cigarettes and lower perception of harmfulness of e-cigarettes than those who dual use, and evaluated the warning lowest on eliciting encouragement to use and feeling e-cigarettes are a healthy alternative to smoking. Few differences emerged between those who use e-cigarettes and dual use or smoke. The varied response patterns by the use group underline the regulatory challenges of developing strong e-cigarette warnings to deter e-cigarette use.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2310-2321"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142970442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2025.2450421
Paul J Wright, Robert S Tokunaga
{"title":"Gender Differences in the Association between Pornography Use and Sexual Satisfaction: Further Meta-Analytic Evidence.","authors":"Paul J Wright, Robert S Tokunaga","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2025.2450421","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2025.2450421","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sexual satisfaction has been identified by public health experts as essential for sexual health, overall health, and well-being. The first meta-analysis of the association between pornography use and sexual satisfaction found a statistically significant negative correlation among men but not among women (i.e. men who consumed pornography more often were less sexually satisfied, while women's sexual satisfaction was not significantly related to their pornography use). A recent meta-analysis reported the opposite pattern of results. This brief report attempted to replicate this recent meta-analysis. Only one study from the original meta-analysis overlapped with the corpus of studies utilized for the recent meta-analysis. Despite this differential base of studies, the present reanalysis of the recent meta-analysis' data points confirmed the findings of the original meta-analysis. Pornography use is significantly and negatively related to men's, but not women's, sexual satisfaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2322-2326"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142978202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-01-03DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2446369
Philipp Sprengholz, Dela Bührig
{"title":"Reactance as a Persuasive Strategy: How Health Communication Can Harness Anger to Leverage Behavior Change.","authors":"Philipp Sprengholz, Dela Bührig","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2446369","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2446369","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>According to psychological reactance theory, individuals who perceive a threat to or loss of valued behavior will experience reactance - an amalgam of anger and negative cognitions that motivates an effort to regain behavioral freedom. The limited effects of health communication interventions have often been attributed to psychological reactance, and previous research has tended to focus on how to design health messages that mitigate this phenomenon. However, the motivational nature of reactance suggests that it might also be used to promote health. When people learn that external influences circumvent a positive health behavior, this information may elicit reactance, motivating them to exhibit that behavior. This idea found support in the results of a preregistered experiment (<i>N</i> = 358), showing that participants were more willing to reduce meat consumption when they experienced reactance after reading about how the food industry undermines self-determined dietary decisions. The findings indicate that harnessing reactance to leverage behavior change may offer a promising alternative to established communication strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2200-2206"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142921535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-01-14DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2024.2448701
Katherine E Ridley-Merriweather, Katharine J Head, Maria Brann, Cynthia Y Wu, Daniel Adan
{"title":"\"We Don't Get Drugs Targeted for Us:\" Applying the Integrated Behavioral Model to Understand Why Black Women Chose to Participate in a Breast Cancer Clinical Trial.","authors":"Katherine E Ridley-Merriweather, Katharine J Head, Maria Brann, Cynthia Y Wu, Daniel Adan","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2448701","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2024.2448701","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Guided by the integrated behavioral model, the authors interviewed 14 Black breast cancer survivors (<i>N</i> = 14) who had participated in a breast cancer clinical trial. This study aimed to better understand what may motivate Black women to engage in medical research and decide to participate in medical research. Findings revealed that Black women's altruistic desires to serve others and their communities are greatly influenced by the need to leave a \"legacy\" of better treatment for other Black women. The participants mostly learned about clinical trials through communicating with friends, family, or other breast cancer patients and survivors, rather than from their physicians. Many were influenced to participate by other Black breast cancer patients they knew, suggesting that social norms messaging may help alert other Black women about the continuing disparity in clinical trial participation. Finally, the participants in this study demonstrated high levels of involvement not only in seeking out clinical trials, but also in engaging in informed and shared decision-making with their providers about participating in the trials. The findings from this work illuminate important reasons Black women chose to participate in breast cancer clinical trials. Additionally, we offer robust and valuable theoretical and practical implications for researchers, so they can work toward successfully increasing Black women's participation in clinical trials.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2280-2289"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12256638/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142983441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health CommunicationPub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-02-03DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2025.2457188
Yidi Wang, Yimeng Xu, Shiwen Wu
{"title":"\"Sharing Is Caring Even When It's Wrong\": The Factors Influencing Health Misinformation Sharing and Relational Correction Among Chinese Older Adults from a Cultural Perspective.","authors":"Yidi Wang, Yimeng Xu, Shiwen Wu","doi":"10.1080/10410236.2025.2457188","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10410236.2025.2457188","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is known that older adults are more susceptible to misinformation, and older adults sharing health misinformation is a growing concern. This study explores the factors influencing health misinformation sharing and relational correction among Chinese older adults from a cultural perspective. Guided by the PEN-3 cultural model, we conducted focus groups and in-depth interviews with 79 participants in China to understand the cultural and contextual factors of misinformation sharing. We found that (a) older adults actively shared health misinformation influenced by negative factors such as values of familial ties, need for respect, reciprocity, and initiation of conversation; (b) existential factors such as fact-checking tendency; (c) positive factors such as fatal information avoidance, political identify, awareness of marketing targeting, and social responsibility. Additionally, we found that older adults tend to switch to a silent mode of relational correction for factors such as harmony and face. This research extends the model's applicability and provides localized insights for developing culturally sensitive health communication strategies to mitigate the spread of health misinformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":12889,"journal":{"name":"Health Communication","volume":" ","pages":"2389-2403"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143079480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}