Informational social support and online health information seeking: Examining the association between factors contributing to healthy eating behavior

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Highlights：

• We explored processes involving social support, web use, and healthy eating.

• Informational support positively predicted web use.

• Informational support positively predicted favorable perceptions of web resources.

• Web use mediated the relationship between support and healthy eating intentions.

• Web use mediated the association between perceptions and healthy eating intentions.

摘要

•We explored processes involving social support, web use, and healthy eating.•Informational support positively predicted web use.•Informational support positively predicted favorable perceptions of web resources.•Web use mediated the relationship between support and healthy eating intentions.•Web use mediated the association between perceptions and healthy eating intentions.

论文关键词：Information seeking,Social support,Healthy eating behavior

论文评审过程：Available online 21 May 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.04.023