Individual and social benefits of online discussion forums

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Highlights：

• Online discussion forums have benefits at individual and society level.

• They are positively linked to well-being for stigmatised group members.

• Online discussion forum use is linked to offline civic engagement in related areas.

• Identification with other forum users mediates the above relationships.

• Online discussion forums are of greater applied importance than has been realized.

摘要

•Online discussion forums have benefits at individual and society level.•They are positively linked to well-being for stigmatised group members.•Online discussion forum use is linked to offline civic engagement in related areas.•Identification with other forum users mediates the above relationships.•Online discussion forums are of greater applied importance than has been realized.

论文关键词：Online discussion forum,Well-being,Civic engagement,Activism,Social identity,Stigmatised group membership

论文评审过程：Available online 20 April 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.067