WeChat use is significantly correlated with college students' quality of friendships but not with perceived well-being

Pang, Hua

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00967

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“…We also compared the WUIQ score of the current PLS sample with 3 other available samples—2 college student samples and 1 elderly sample [ 27 , 48 , 49 ] in China. PLS had fewer WeChat friends than college students (mean 1.52 vs 2.34/2.44), and the percentage of PLS with more than 50 WeChat friends was similar to that of the elderly (50/163, 30.7% vs 12/35, 34.3%).…”

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“…Continuous variables were described using mean and standard deviation, and categorical variables were described using frequency and percentage. WeChat use patterns in this study were compared with those of other populations in other studies using the same or similar scale [ 27 , 48 , 49 ]. WeChat users and nonusers were compared for sociodemographics by a two-tailed unpaired t test for age and χ 2 test for gender, marriage, education, and employment.…”

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New Path to Recovery and Well-Being: Cross-Sectional Study on WeChat Use and Endorsement of WeChat-Based mHealth Among People Living With Schizophrenia in China

Yu¹,

Li²,

Li³

et al. 2020

J Med Internet Res

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Background The past few decades have seen an exponential increase in using mobile phones to support medical care (mobile health [mHealth]) among people living with psychosis worldwide, yet little is known about WeChat use and WeChat-based mHealth among people living with schizophrenia (PLS) in China. Objective This study aims to assess WeChat use, endorsement of WeChat-based mHealth programs, and health related to WeChat use among PLS. Methods We recruited a random sample of 400 PLS from 12 communities in Changsha City of Hunan Province, China. WeChat use was assessed using the adapted WeChat Use Intensity Questionnaire (WUIQ). We also compared psychiatric symptoms, functioning, disability, recovery, quality of life, and general well-being between WeChat users and nonusers using one-to-one propensity-score matching. Results The WeChat use rate was 40.8% in this sample (163/400); 30.7% (50/163) had more than 50 WeChat friends and nearly half (81/163, 49.7%) spent more than half an hour on WeChat, a pattern similar to college students and the elderly. PLS also showed higher emotional connectedness to WeChat use than college students. About 80.4% (131/163) of PLS were willing to participate in a WeChat-based mHealth program, including psychoeducation (91/163, 55.8%), professional support (82/163, 50.3%), and peer support (67/163, 41.1%). Compared with nonusers, WeChat users were younger, better educated, and more likely to be employed. WeChat use was associated with improved health outcomes, including lower psychiatric symptoms, lower depression, higher functioning, better recovery, and higher quality of life. Conclusions WeChat-based mHealth programs hold promise as an empowering tool to provide cost-effective interventions, to foster global recovery, and to improve both physical and mental well-being among PLS. WeChat and WeChat-based mHealth programs have the potential to offer a new path to recovery and well-being for PLS in China.

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New Path to Recovery and Well-Being: Cross-Sectional Study on WeChat Use and Endorsement of WeChat-Based mHealth Among People Living With Schizophrenia in China

Yu¹,

Li²,

Li³

et al. 2020

J Med Internet Res

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“…Such online self-presentation to a certain number of audiences makes people consciously or subconsciously try to make a favorable impression on others ( Grace et al., 2015 ). Existing researcher have suggested that social media provides an ideal setting for impression management in which users have more control over their impression management than in face-to-face communication ( Krämer and Winter, 2008 ; Pang, 2018 ). For example, users can decide which aspects of their lives and personalities they want to present and which photos convey the best images of them ( Ellison et al., 2006 ).…”

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Corporate crisis management on social media: A morality violations perspective

Zheng

Liu

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Communication via a social network function enabled by social media has greatly empowered consumers' secondary crisis communication, as compared to a firm's crisis communication, and has thus changed corporate crisis management. This study aims to uncover consumers' decision process of engaging in secondary crisis communication in a social media context. Drawing on the social control perspective and impression management theory, this study examines the role of perceived morality violations and consumers' susceptibility to social influence in shaping consumers' secondary crisis communication in corporate crises. Moreover, leveraging cognitive dissonance theory, this study further examines the effects of corporate responses on the process of consumers' secondary crisis communication. A survey design with four scenarios was conducted to test a series of hypotheses relating to the decision process of secondary crisis communication. Our empirical results demonstrate that consumers' approach to secondary crisis communication on social media depends largely to the degree to which they perceive moral violations in the firms' crisis response. The findings also show that consumers tend to want to believe they are doing the “right thing” when considering secondary crisis communication and thus are afraid of being disliked by others for their purchasing decisions related to a firm in crisis. Such social conformance can result in a snowballing of negative word of mouth in product-harm crises cases. Findings contribute to the literature on social media crisis management and consumers' communication behavior on social media during product-harm crises.

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“…Overall, these results indicate that PLS had WeChat friend numbers similar to the elderly, spent time on WeChat similar to college students, and yet had higher emotional attachment to WeChat use than college students. [49] College students (N=508) [48] Undergraduates and graduates (N=339) [27] People living with schizophrenia (N=163) (this study) ). In addition, WeChat users had lower disability and higher general well-being scores than nonusers, but the differences only reached a trend level effect after matching.…”

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New Path to Recovery and Well-Being: Cross-Sectional Study on WeChat Use and Endorsement of WeChat-Based mHealth Among People Living With Schizophrenia in China (Preprint)

Yu¹,

Li²,

Li³

et al. 2020

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BACKGROUND The past few decades have seen an exponential increase in using mobile phones to support medical care (“mHealth”) among people living with psychosis worldwide, yet little is known about WeChat use and WeChat-based mHealth among people living with schizophrenia (PLS) in China. OBJECTIVE The present study aims to assess WeChat use, endorsement of WeChat-based mHealth programs, and health related to WeChat use among PLS. METHODS We recruited a random sample of 400 PLS from 12 communities were recruited in Changsha City of Hunan Province, China. WeChat use was assessed using the adapted WeChat Use Intensity Questionnaire (WUIQ). We also measured psychiatric symptoms, functioning, disability, recovery, quality of life, and general wellbeing using a series of internationally standardized instruments. RESULTS WeChat use rate was 41% in this sample (163/400). Thirty percent had more than 50 WeChat friends and nearly half spent more than half an hour on WeChat, a pattern similar to college students and the elderly. PLS also showed higher emotional connectedness to WeChat use than college students. Eighty percent of PLS were willing to participate in a WeChat-based mHealth program, including psychoeducation (56%), professional support (50%), and peer support (41%). Compared to non-users, WeChat users were younger, better-educated, and more likely to be employed. WeChat use was associated with improved health outcomes, including lower psychiatric symptoms, lower disability, higher functioning, better recovery, higher quality of life, and better general well-being. CONCLUSIONS WeChat-based mHealth programs hold promise as an empowering tool to provide cost-effective interventions, to foster global recovery, and to improve both physical and mental wellbeing among people with schizophrenia. WeChat and WeChat-based mHealth programs has the potential to offer a new path to recovery and wellbeing for people living with schizophrenia in China. CLINICALTRIAL NA

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WeChat use is significantly correlated with college students' quality of friendships but not with perceived well-being

Cited by 29 publications

References 62 publications

New Path to Recovery and Well-Being: Cross-Sectional Study on WeChat Use and Endorsement of WeChat-Based mHealth Among People Living With Schizophrenia in China

New Path to Recovery and Well-Being: Cross-Sectional Study on WeChat Use and Endorsement of WeChat-Based mHealth Among People Living With Schizophrenia in China

Corporate crisis management on social media: A morality violations perspective

New Path to Recovery and Well-Being: Cross-Sectional Study on WeChat Use and Endorsement of WeChat-Based mHealth Among People Living With Schizophrenia in China (Preprint)

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