The Augmented Cognitive Mediation Model: Examining Antecedents of Factual and Structural Breast Cancer Knowledge Among Singaporean Women
| Autor: | Shirley S. Ho, Mincheol Shin, Ariffin Kawaja, Edmund W. J. Lee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Health (social science) Information Seeking Behavior 050801 communication & media studies Breast Neoplasms Interpersonal communication Library and Information Sciences Models Psychological Risk Assessment Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 0508 media and communications Information seeking behavior Surveys and Questionnaires Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Health communication Elaboration Aged Motivation Singapore Consumer Health Information business.industry Communication 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged Knowledge acquisition Risk perception The Internet Female business Psychology Social psychology Inclusion (education) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of health communication. 21(5) |
| ISSN: | 1087-0415 |
| Popis: | As knowledge acquisition is an important component of health communication research, this study examines factors associated with Singaporean women's breast cancer knowledge using an augmented cognitive mediation model. We conducted a nationally representative study that surveyed 802 women between the ages of 30 and 70 using random-digit dialing. The results supported the augmented cognitive mediation model, which proposes the inclusion of risk perception as a motivator of health information seeking and structural knowledge as an additional knowledge dimension. There was adequate support for the hypothesized paths in the model. Risk perception was positively associated with attention to newspaper, television, Internet, and interpersonal communication. Attention to the three media channels was associated with interpersonal communication, but only newspaper and television attention were associated with elaboration. Interpersonal communication was positively associated with structural knowledge, whereas elaboration was associated with both factual and structural knowledge. Differential indirect effects between media attention and knowledge dimensions via interpersonal communication and elaboration were found. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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