scholarly journals Fussy eating in toddlers: A content analysis of parents' online support seeking

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylie Fraser ◽  
Brittany Reese Markides ◽  
Norma Barrett ◽  
Rachel Laws
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Online Support ◽  
Support Seeking ◽  
Fussy Eating

A phenomenological content analysis of online support seeking by siblings of people with autism

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael A. Dansby ◽  
Brie Turns ◽  
Jason B. Whiting ◽  
Jeffrey Crane
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Online Support ◽  
Support Seeking

scholarly journals Where and How to Look for Help Matters: Analysis of Support Exchange in Online Health Communities for People Living with HIV

Information ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Maestre ◽  
Susan Herring ◽  
Aehong Min ◽  
Ciabhan Connelly ◽  
Patrick Shih
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Online Support ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Support Provision ◽  
Online Health Communities ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Support Seeking ◽  
Support Exchange ◽  
Health Communities

Research is scarce on how direct and indirect support seeking strategies affect support exchange in online health communities. Moreover, prior research has relied mostly on content analysis of forum posts at the post level. In order to generate a more fine-grained analysis of support exchange, we conducted content analysis at the utterance level, taking directness of support seeking, quality of provision, forum type, and seeker gender into account. Our analysis of four popular online support forums for people living with human immunodeficiency virus found that type of support sought and provided, support seeking strategy, and quality of emotional support provision differed in care provider/formal forums versus social/informal forums. Interestingly, indirect support seeking tended to elicit more supportive emotional responses than direct support seeking strategies in all forums; we account for this in terms of type of support sought. Practical implications for online support communities are discussed.

Content Analysis and User Characteristics of a Smartphone-Based Online Support Group for People Living with HIV

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 746-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tabor E. Flickinger ◽  
Claire DeBolt ◽  
Erin Wispelwey ◽  
Colleen Laurence ◽  
Erin Plews-Ogan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Online Support ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
User Characteristics ◽  
Online Support Group ◽  
Living With Hiv

scholarly journals Online support community for adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer: user statistics, evaluation, and content analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol Volume 12 ◽  
pp. 2615-2622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne EJ Kaal ◽  
Olga Husson ◽  
Fleur van Dartel ◽  
Karin Hermans ◽  
Rosemarie Jansen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Online Support

Emotional Disclosures and Reciprocal Support over the Largest Parenting Forum on Reddit: Using Data Mining to Examine the Effect of Account Type and Anonymity on Supportive Communication (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Supreet Mann ◽  
Michael C Carter
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Online Support ◽  
Interpersonal Processes ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Parenting Support ◽  
Support Seeking ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

BACKGROUND Online support forums allow users to seek advice, information, and emotional support on a variety of issues. Today’s parents navigate unique stressors both off- and on-line, and online forums can provide parents with the social support they need to address contemporary parenting issues. Increased social support can have a positive effect on mental health, including decreasing depressive symptomatology and acting as a buffer to stress. Online support forums may provide parents with increased anonymity to discuss sensitive topics and may provide minority parents with a larger social network for advice seeking. It is, therefore, critical that we examine online support forums to better understand the role that social support might play in these spaces and the way parent posts may influence response. OBJECTIVE Research examining social support processes in parenting forums is lacking. This study examines the interpersonal support process within the largest Reddit parenting forum, r/Parenting, to understand how anonymity plays a role in emotional self-disclosure of the parent-poster and subsequent commenter support. METHODS Comments and posts made to r/Parenting were collected using Reddit’s API in February of 2020 with a final sample of 118,277 posts and 697,095 comments. RESULTS Results suggest the use of throwaway accounts is an important factor in the way emotional self-disclosure occurs both in posts and comments. Our data evidenced that in an online forum for parents to seek advice, information, and support, the use of throwaway accounts was found to be an important factor in the degree of ESD included in both posts and comments. Additionally, there was a direct and positive relationship between the ESD of posts and ESD of comments. CONCLUSIONS This suggests that in contemporary society, online spaces may offer parents increased anonymity and greater affordances when it comes to connecting with others, and thus operate as critical venues for social support. We evidenced that one feature that affords users with a greater degree of anonymity online (i.e., pseudonyms) serve as critical component in online support seeking among parents, impacting both the process of support seeking and reception of social support over one of the most popular parenting support forums online, r/Parenting. This signals an evolution in the way’s parents seek social support from others. This paves the way for further research examining interpersonal processes and the impact online support has on family communication through parent support.

scholarly journals What You Say Is What You Get: How Self-Disclosure in Support Seeking Affects Language Use in Support Provision in Online Support Forums

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjing Pan ◽  
Bo Feng ◽  
V. Skye Wingate
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Online Support ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Support Provision ◽  
Support Seeking ◽  
Competing Hypotheses

This experimental study examined how depth of self-disclosure (baseline, peripheral, core) in support-seeking posts influenced forum viewers’ interaction involvement and reciprocal self-disclosure in their responses. A series of competing hypotheses derived from several theoretical frameworks were tested. Results obtained from computerized text analyses showed that self-concept self-disclosure was associated with higher levels of interaction involvement and reciprocal self-disclosure in viewers’ response messages. Implications of the findings and directions for future research are discussed.

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