Weak-Tie Support Network Preference and Perceived Life Stress Among Participants in Health-Related, Computer-Mediated Support Groups

Wright, Kevin B.; Rains, Steve; Banas, John A.

doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01505.x

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“…For example, in other cultural contexts, the importance and function of weak network ties might differ. Among AfricanAmericans, weak tie connections monitoring health stemming from church membership seems to have greater salience [34][35][36]. The limitation of using the concentric circle method was that at times, weak tie connections were conflated with stronger ones that people were dissatisfied with.…”

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Adaptation Experience and Social Support Network of Adolescent Cancer Survivors

Cho¹,

Park²

2017

Child Health Nurs Res

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Background: The distribution of the roles and responsibilities of long-term condition management (LTCM) outside of formal health services implicates a wide set of relationships and activities of involvement. Yet, compared to studies of professional implementation, patient systems of implementation remain under-investigated. The aim of this paper is to explore the work, meaning and function attributed to 'weaker' ties relative to other more bonding relationships in order to identify the place of these within a context of systems of support for long-term conditions. Methods: This is a mixed methods survey with nested qualitative study. A total of 300 people from deprived areas in the North West of England with chronic illnesses took part in a survey conducted in 2010 to 2011. A concentric circles diagram was used as a research tool with which participants identified 2,544 network members who contributed to illness management. Notions of 'work' were used to describe activities associated with chronic illness and to identify how weaker ties are included and perceived to be involved through social network members (SNM) contributions. Results:The results provide an articulation of how SNMs are substantially involved in weak tie illness management. Weaker ties constituted 16.1% of network membership involved in illness work. The amount of work undertaken was similar but less than that of stronger ties. Weaker ties appeared more durable and less liable to loss over time than stronger ties. The qualitative accounts suggested that weak ties enabled the moral positioning of the self-managing 'self' and acted on the basis of a strong sense of reciprocity.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptation Experience and Social Support Network of Adolescent Cancer Survivors

Cho¹,

Park²

2017

Child Health Nurs Res

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“…Weak ties are also effective in providing social support. Recent studies find that individuals are more likely to seek social support from weak ties such as online health supporting groups than strong ties (i.e., family members) because weak ties tend to provide non-redundant information and objective feedback and are less likely to pose risks and role obligations (Wright, Rains, & Banas, 2010).…”

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Effectiveness of health messages to change women's thin-ideal and unhealthy weight control intentions: Connecting social norms and social networks approaches

Tang

Chen

2013

Asian Journal of Communication

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The thin-ideal is becoming increasingly dominant among women in Eastern Asian countries such as China and South Korea. The internalization of the thinideal leads to body image disturbance and unhealthy weight-control behaviors. Based on the social networks and social norms approaches, this study tests the effectiveness of normative messages in reducing women's internationalization of the thin-ideal and weight-control intentions through an experiment among female college students in China. It investigates how the following three factors: content of normative message (psychoeducational or feminist), source of the message (strong ties or weak ties), and characteristics of the recipients (self-weight evaluations) influence women's body image and weight-control intentions. Results of this study suggest that normative messages with a psychoeducational approach delivered through strong ties are more effective in decreasing women's internalization of the thin-ideal than the same message delivered through weak ties. In contrast, normative messages with a feminist approach delivered through weak ties are more effective in reducing women's internalization of the thin-ideal and unhealthy weight-control intentions than the same messages delivered through strong ties. There is an interaction effect between message content and recipients' self-weight evaluation. The theoretical and practical implications of this study are discussed.

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“…It will be expensive and time-consuming tasks for us to enhance the current security level up to the reliable usage of our Web-based data monitoring in the external network environment [11]. So we are willing to search collaboration partnership to develop database facility for our data retrieval and modification.…”

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Development of an automatic health screening system for Student Health Education of University

Miyazaki

Kamano

Yamakata

et al. 2012

2012 Second International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and It's Applications (DICTAP)

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A Health Education Support System has been designed and being implemented for our students of Kagawa University in Japan. This paper describes the detail of An Automatic Health Screening System, which can play the former part role of our Health Education Support System, is described in detail in this paper. Major characteristics of our screening system are using IC card for user identification, interfacing several kinds of physical measuring devices like as height meter, weight meter, blood pressure monitor, etc. and retrieving measured data through Web-DB system. Human errors and incorrect identification can be reduced by means of automatic identification with IC card. Speedup of screening can be realized through interfacing between physical measuring devices and computers. And efficient retrieval of measured data can be performed with Web-DB system and Distributed campuses network environment in our University. With our automatic health screening system, almost students can easily participate in University-level health screening and investigate/retrieve their proper physical data for their healthcare through dedicated Web-DB system on the network environment.Index Terms-Health screening, IC card for user identification, Interfacing physical measuring devices, Web-DB system for health education.

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Weak-Tie Support Network Preference and Perceived Life Stress Among Participants in Health-Related, Computer-Mediated Support Groups

Cited by 120 publications

References 50 publications

Adaptation Experience and Social Support Network of Adolescent Cancer Survivors

Adaptation Experience and Social Support Network of Adolescent Cancer Survivors

Effectiveness of health messages to change women's thin-ideal and unhealthy weight control intentions: Connecting social norms and social networks approaches

Development of an automatic health screening system for Student Health Education of University

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