Predicting User Response and Support Activities in Virtual Health Support Communities

dc.contributor.author Manga, Joseph
dc.contributor.author Wang, Bin
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-24T19:37:25Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-24T19:37:25Z
dc.date.issued 2021-01-05
dc.description.abstract Despite growing emphasis on the factors affecting different types of supports users receive from virtual health support communities (VHSC), theoretical knowledge on how social awareness capabilities determine the extent of the support received is yet to be investigated. Adopting social awareness theory and using data collected from the COVID-19 support community on a large VHSC platform, we apply linguistic analysis to measure the impacts of three social awareness variables — social sensitivity, social insight, and social communication — on users’ response and support behaviors. The ordinary least square regression results show that social insight significantly influenced the number of replies to a post. In addition, results from the negative binomial regression also indicate that social sensitivity and social communication significantly predicted the number of support votes and thanks votes a user’s post received. The findings reveal some important research and practical implications on the need to facilitate social awareness in VHSC forums.
dc.format.extent 10 pages
dc.identifier.doi 10.24251/HICSS.2021.371
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9981331-4-0
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/70985
dc.language.iso English
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Social Networking and Communities
dc.subject communication
dc.subject covid-19
dc.subject insight
dc.subject sensitivity
dc.subject vhscs
dc.title Predicting User Response and Support Activities in Virtual Health Support Communities
prism.startingpage 3047
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