Research on the Influence of Personality Traits in Health Information Seeking Between Young People from the Perspective of Information Platform

  • Zheng Ce ,
  • Kong Jun ,
  • Fu Shaoxiong
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  • 1. Physical Education Department, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072;
    2. Center for the Studies of Information Resources, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072

Received date: 2017-04-14

  Revised date: 2017-05-24

  Online published: 2017-06-20

Abstract

[Purpose/significance] This paper aims to explore the impact of personality traits on young people's health information seeking under different health information platforms. Research can improve domestic health information services and provide targeted health information support for users.[Method/process] In this paper, we selected youth as our research object, 391 users' data were collected by questionnaire and we selected 30 users to interview conditionally. The relevant methods were used to analyze the health information seeking behavior of users with different personality traits under different health information platforms.[Result/conclusion] The results show that personality traits have a significant effect on young people's health information seeking behavior, and the effect of different personality traits on the health information seeking behavior of different platforms is different; Users' health information seeking behavior has a difference under different health information platforms. As for users' experience, the experience of the search engine is the most experienced, while the experience of the online health community is the scarcest. And users' using preferences of health information platforms for PC and the mobile clients are different.

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Zheng Ce , Kong Jun , Fu Shaoxiong . Research on the Influence of Personality Traits in Health Information Seeking Between Young People from the Perspective of Information Platform[J]. Library and Information Service, 2017 , 61(12) : 77 -85 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2017.12.010

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