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Pregnant women's coping strategies, participation roles and social support in the online community during the COVID-19.
Lei, Xueqin; Wu, Hong; Ye, Qing.
  • Lei X; School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
  • Wu H; School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
  • Ye Q; Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Inf Process Manag ; 59(3): 102932, 2022 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1757434
ABSTRACT
Pregnant women are experiencing enormous physical changes and suffering pregnancy-related losses, which may lead to depression symptoms during pregnancy. Given that the onslaught of COVID-19 had exacerbated pregnant women's anxiety because of disruptions in antenatal care and concerns regarding safe delivery, it is worth exploring how they obtain social support to cope with stress during COVID-19. Although many works have explored the impact of coping resources that people have on coping strategies, few studies have been done on the relationship between people's coping strategies and their acquisition of coping resources such as social support. To fill this gap, based on the stress and coping theory (SCT) and social penetration theory (SPT), this study investigates the impacts of pregnant women's different coping strategies on the acquisition of social support and the moderating role of the adverse impacts of COVID-19 and their online participation roles (support providers vs. support seekers) using the data of 814 pregnant women's online behavior from a parenting community in China. Our study indicates that both women's superficial level disclosure and personal level disclosure positively affect online social support received. Moreover, self-disclosure about the adverse impacts of COVID-19 negatively moderates the relationship between personal level disclosure and social support received. Participation role positively moderates the relationship between personal level disclosure and social support received, but negatively moderates the relationship between superficial level disclosure and social support received. This paper makes theoretical contributions to the literature of SCT, SPT and the literature about social support in online communities.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Language: English Journal: Inf Process Manag Year: 2022 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: J.IPM.2022.102932

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Language: English Journal: Inf Process Manag Year: 2022 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: J.IPM.2022.102932