Doctors in Demand: Media Framing of General Practitioners in German Local Newspapers Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic [0.03%]
Janine N Blessing,Michael Johann
Janine N Blessing
General practitioners (GPs) are central to primary healthcare, yet their representation in local news remains underexamined. Addressing this gap, this study investigates how GPs are framed in German local newspapers between 2018 and 2023. D...
Immediate Affect, Enduring Cognition: Unraveling the Dual Pathways of Media's Time-Varying Effects on Preventive Behaviors [0.03%]
Bo Chang,Ruoheng Liu,Yi-Hui Christine Huang
Bo Chang
Media attention plays a crucial role in shaping individual risk perceptions and health behaviors during health crises. However, extant research relying on cross-sectional data struggles to capture the temporal dynamics of media influence on...
Can Algorithms Efficiently Identify Interpretable and Persuasive Message Features? An Agnostic Causal Machine Learning Approach [0.03%]
Sijia Yang,Luhang Sun,Ran Tao et al.
Sijia Yang et al.
Argument strength and message persuasiveness are key constructs in message effects research. Yet, researchers still lack a systematic and efficient approach to uncover the "recipe" for these message-level latent features. We applied an agno...
Community Characteristics Predict Local News Agenda Building About Racial Health Disparities [0.03%]
Yiwei Xu,Markus Neumann,Erika Franklin Fowler et al.
Yiwei Xu et al.
We examined market-level social and demographic characteristics and station-level factors as predictors of local television news coverage of COVID-19-related racial disparities using the theoretical lens of agenda building and the community...
Effects of Content Trust, Source Trust, and Channel Trust on Perceived Message Effectiveness: A Study of Social Media Posts About Bone Health in Australia [0.03%]
Lisa Tam,Amisha Mehta,Ellen Tyquin et al.
Lisa Tam et al.
Despite the commonsense view that trust positively influences information-seeking behaviors in health communication, equivocal findings exist. The equivocal findings can be attributed to interrelated factors such as differences in conceptua...
Bounded Supportive Companionship: How Chinese Young Adults Seek Emotional Support from Generative AI Chatbots [0.03%]
Lingyan Ma,Yijing Wang,Yuan Wang
Lingyan Ma
Many young adults now turn to generative AI chatbots for emotional support, yet little is known about how they actively shape these interactions and regulate their psychological boundaries. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 22 Ch...
Understanding Chinese Single Mothers' Communicative Resilience Enactment Across Three Types of Social Interactions [0.03%]
Xiaoman Zhao,Kai Kuang
Xiaoman Zhao
Recent social changes in China have contributed to a growing number of single mothers raising dependent children on their own. However, deep-seated cultural norms continue to stigmatize single motherhood, placing many of these women under c...
A Construal Level Approach to Anti-Vaccination Discussions: A Content Analysis of Reddit Posts About COVID-19 Vaccines [0.03%]
Chun Zhou
Chun Zhou
Extensive research has identified prevalent themes and persuasive tactics in anti-vaccination discussions, yet there is a need for systematic examination of how these themes differ and whether their levels of abstractness and concreteness v...
What Shapes Health App Use and Its Outcomes in Emerging Adults? The Cognitive Appraisals and Motivational Orientation Model [0.03%]
Robyn Vanherle,Kathleen Beullens
Robyn Vanherle
Mobile health (m-health) applications, including fitness and wellness apps, have become increasingly integrated into daily life, with emerging adults (ages 18-34) representing the largest user group. While prior research has sought to ident...
Promoting Continued Exercise with Visual Gain Framing: A Replicable Positive-Emotion Pathway and the Conditional Role of Self-Perceived Attractiveness [0.03%]
Zhuoqi Guo,Chi Chung
Zhuoqi Guo
As public health campaigns increasingly rely on imagery, including AI-generated visuals, this research examines how image-based gain- versus loss-framed exercise messages shape continuing (rather than general) exercise intentions. Across th...