Social support exchanges in a social media community for people living with HIV/AIDS in China
Social support exchanges in a social media community for people living with HIV/AIDS in China
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DOI：
10.1080/09540121.2014.991678
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发表时间：
2015-06-03
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Shi, Jingyuan
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作者：
Chen, Liang;Shi, Jingyuan
近年来，社交媒体已成为社会支持的重要来源。2011年1月，中国的艾滋病毒/艾滋病感染者在微博（Twitter的中文版）上创建了一个在线支持小组（艾滋病毒/艾滋病微博小组）。目前的研究探讨了社会支持如何在这个社交媒体社区传播。首先，从微博上的艾滋病毒/艾滋病微博组中随机抽取连续五周（2011年5月2日至2011年6月13日）的消息。接着，我们运用社会网络分析法绘制艾滋病微博群体的结构图，并对研究变量进行测量。之后，采用多变量方差分析，考察了接触频率和互惠对每一对中交换的信息和情感社会支持的影响。结果表明，高水平的接触频率或互惠的对交换更多的信息支持比低水平的接触频率或互惠的对。此外，高频率的接触的二元合作伙伴交换了大量的情感支持比那些低水平的接触频率，但强互惠的二元没有交换显着更多的情感社会支持比他们的同行与低水平的互惠。
In recent years, social media has become an important source of social support. People living with HIV/AIDS in China created an online support group (the HIV/AIDS Weibo Group) on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, in January 2011. The current study examined how social support transmitted in this social media community. First, messages over five successive weeks (2 May 2011 to 13 June 2011) were randomly selected from the HIV/AIDS Weibo Group on Weibo. Next, we employed social network analysis to map the HIV/AIDS Weibo Group's structure and to measure the study variables. After that, a multivariate analysis of variance was applied to examine the influence of frequency of contact and reciprocity on informational and emotional social support exchanged in each dyad. The results revealed that pairs with a high level of contact frequency or reciprocity exchanged more informational support than do pairs with a low level of contact frequency or reciprocity. Moreover, dyadic partners with high frequency of contact exchanged a larger amount of emotional support than those with a low level frequency of contact; but strongly reciprocal dyads did not exchange significantly more emotional social support than their counterparts with a low level of reciprocity.