Differences in intrapersonal and interactional empowerment between lurkers and posters in health-related online support communities

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Highlights：

• Intrapersonal and interactional psychological empowerment can develop in HROSCs.

• Participation is not a necessary condition for intrapersonal empowerment in HROSCs.

• Posters and lurkers have a similar degree of intrapersonal empowerment in HROSCs.

• Posters experience higher degree of interactional empowerment than lurkers in HROSCs.

• Intensity of posting is associated only with interactional dimension of empowerment.

摘要

•Intrapersonal and interactional psychological empowerment can develop in HROSCs.•Participation is not a necessary condition for intrapersonal empowerment in HROSCs.•Posters and lurkers have a similar degree of intrapersonal empowerment in HROSCs.•Posters experience higher degree of interactional empowerment than lurkers in HROSCs.•Intensity of posting is associated only with interactional dimension of empowerment.

论文关键词：Psychological empowerment,Online health community,Social support,Participation,Lurking,Posting

论文评审过程：Available online 21 February 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.01.008