Mengfei Guan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4266869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mengfei Guan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mengfei |
| FAMILY NAME | Guan |
| SIGNATURE | GUAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4062-1069 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Predictors and Outcomes of Online Health Information Avoidance in the Context of Covid-19
Despite its significant implications for public health and individual decision-making, research on information avoidance remains limited. In this study, we applied and extended the model of planned risk information avoidance (PRIA) to examine how sociocultural, cognitive, and affective factors shape online health information avoidance (OHIA). Using a three-wave longitudinal online survey, we found that risk perception, attitude toward information…
Differences in HPV Vaccine Information Usefulness and Understanding Between Parents With and Without a Child with Special Healthcare Needs
A Conditional Process Analysis of Emerging Adults’ Motivated Information Management with Parents, Family Conversation Orientation, and Intentions to Vaccinate for Covid-19
Using the theory of motivated information management (TMIM), this study tested the effect of emerging adults' uncertainty discrepancy about COVID-19 vaccines on their intentions to vaccinate. In March and April of 2021, 424 emerging adult children reported on the likelihood of seeking or avoiding information from a parent about COVID-19 vaccines in response to their uncertainty discrepancy and negative emotions related to the vaccines. Results su…
Covid-19 Message Fatigue
This study examines the impact of message fatigue and what makes people fatigued in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data collected with a Qualtrics panel (N = 744) showed that both active (i.e., reactance) and passive (i.e., inattention) resistance in message processing mediated the relationships between message fatigue and intentions to follow three types of preventive behaviors against COVID-19 (i.e., wearing masks, social distancing, and…
Modeling the Mediating and Moderating Roles of Risk Perceptions, Efficacy, Desired Uncertainty, and Worry in Information Seeking-Cancer Screening Relationship Using HINTS 2017 Data
Despite mixed findings in the literature, health information seeking is considered as a promising antecedent of health behavior and outcome. However, little research has been conducted to identify factors that explain the health information seeking-health behavior relationship. In the contexts of breast, cervical, and prostate cancer screening, this research utilized recently collected Health Information National Trends Survey data (HINTS 5 Cycle…
Delineating Antecedents and Outcomes of Information Seeking Upon Exposure to an Environmental Video Opposing Single-Use Plastics
As environmental threats mount around the world, advocacy groups are exploring novel ways to reach the populace and spur them into action. The current study employs an experimental design with a control condition and a group that watched a pro-environmental video to test the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model. A short environmental advocacy video demonstrated the ability to engage viewers in combatting the problem of single-use …
Communicating Covid-19 information on TikTok
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, TikTok, an emerging social media platform, has created an information hub to provide users with engaging and authoritative COVID-19 information. This study investigates the video format, type and content of the COVID-19 TikTok videos, and how those video attributes are related to quantitative indicators of user engagement, including numbers of views, likes, comments and shares. A content analysis examined 331 videos fr…
Exploring the Role of Social Support in Promoting Patient Participation in Health Care among Women with Breast Cancer
Scholars have adopted Street’s (2003) ecological model of communication in medical encounters to investigate the factors promoting patient participation in health care. However, factors demonstrated in the ecological model were bounded in the context of medical care primarily focusing on health care providers and patients. Social factors, such as patients’ relationships and supportive communication with others outside the context of health care r…
Associations Between Mother–Child Communication Apprehension, and Young Adult Resilience, Depressive Symptoms, and Self-Esteem
This study tested associations between mother-child communication apprehension, adult child communication apprehension, and adult child resilience, self-esteem, and depressive symptoms. Data were collected from 154 mother-child dyads ( N = 308) who completed measures of communication apprehension, depressive symptoms, resilience, and self-esteem. Results showed that mother communication apprehension positively predicted adult child communication …
Elaborating Cancer Opinion Leaders' Communication Behaviors Within Online Health Communities
This study integrates social network and content analyses to examine the communication behaviors of opinion leaders-such as creating threads and engaging in continuous conversations-in two large cancer-focused online health communities. Guided by the diffusion of innovation theory and the social support literature, we analyzed 951 threads and 10,179 posts and found that a group of opinion leaders (including cancer patients, family caregivers, and…
Elaborating Cancer Opinion Leaders' Communication Behaviors Within Online Health Communities
This study integrates social network and content analyses to examine the communication behaviors of opinion leaders-such as creating threads and engaging in continuous conversations-in two large cancer-focused online health communities. Guided by the diffusion of innovation theory and the social support literature, we analyzed 951 threads and 10,179 posts and found that a group of opinion leaders (including cancer patients, family caregivers, and…
Associations Between Mother–Child Communication Apprehension, and Young Adult Resilience, Depressive Symptoms, and Self-Esteem
This study tested associations between mother-child communication apprehension, adult child communication apprehension, and adult child resilience, self-esteem, and depressive symptoms. Data were collected from 154 mother-child dyads ( N = 308) who completed measures of communication apprehension, depressive symptoms, resilience, and self-esteem. Results showed that mother communication apprehension positively predicted adult child communication …
Elaborating Cancer Opinion Leaders' Communication Behaviors Within Online Health Communities
This study integrates social network and content analyses to examine the communication behaviors of opinion leaders-such as creating threads and engaging in continuous conversations-in two large cancer-focused online health communities. Guided by the diffusion of innovation theory and the social support literature, we analyzed 951 threads and 10,179 posts and found that a group of opinion leaders (including cancer patients, family caregivers, and…
Communicating Covid-19 information on TikTok
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, TikTok, an emerging social media platform, has created an information hub to provide users with engaging and authoritative COVID-19 information. This study investigates the video format, type and content of the COVID-19 TikTok videos, and how those video attributes are related to quantitative indicators of user engagement, including numbers of views, likes, comments and shares. A content analysis examined 331 videos fr…
Exploring the Role of Social Support in Promoting Patient Participation in Health Care among Women with Breast Cancer
Scholars have adopted Street’s (2003) ecological model of communication in medical encounters to investigate the factors promoting patient participation in health care. However, factors demonstrated in the ecological model were bounded in the context of medical care primarily focusing on health care providers and patients. Social factors, such as patients’ relationships and supportive communication with others outside the context of health care r…
Modeling the Mediating and Moderating Roles of Risk Perceptions, Efficacy, Desired Uncertainty, and Worry in Information Seeking-Cancer Screening Relationship Using HINTS 2017 Data
Despite mixed findings in the literature, health information seeking is considered as a promising antecedent of health behavior and outcome. However, little research has been conducted to identify factors that explain the health information seeking-health behavior relationship. In the contexts of breast, cervical, and prostate cancer screening, this research utilized recently collected Health Information National Trends Survey data (HINTS 5 Cycle…
Delineating Antecedents and Outcomes of Information Seeking Upon Exposure to an Environmental Video Opposing Single-Use Plastics
As environmental threats mount around the world, advocacy groups are exploring novel ways to reach the populace and spur them into action. The current study employs an experimental design with a control condition and a group that watched a pro-environmental video to test the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model. A short environmental advocacy video demonstrated the ability to engage viewers in combatting the problem of single-use …
Covid-19 Message Fatigue
This study examines the impact of message fatigue and what makes people fatigued in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data collected with a Qualtrics panel (N = 744) showed that both active (i.e., reactance) and passive (i.e., inattention) resistance in message processing mediated the relationships between message fatigue and intentions to follow three types of preventive behaviors against COVID-19 (i.e., wearing masks, social distancing, and…
A Conditional Process Analysis of Emerging Adults’ Motivated Information Management with Parents, Family Conversation Orientation, and Intentions to Vaccinate for Covid-19
Using the theory of motivated information management (TMIM), this study tested the effect of emerging adults' uncertainty discrepancy about COVID-19 vaccines on their intentions to vaccinate. In March and April of 2021, 424 emerging adult children reported on the likelihood of seeking or avoiding information from a parent about COVID-19 vaccines in response to their uncertainty discrepancy and negative emotions related to the vaccines. Results su…
Differences in HPV Vaccine Information Usefulness and Understanding Between Parents With and Without a Child with Special Healthcare Needs
Predictors and Outcomes of Online Health Information Avoidance in the Context of Covid-19
Despite its significant implications for public health and individual decision-making, research on information avoidance remains limited. In this study, we applied and extended the model of planned risk information avoidance (PRIA) to examine how sociocultural, cognitive, and affective factors shape online health information avoidance (OHIA). Using a three-wave longitudinal online survey, we found that risk perception, attitude toward information…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (3 works) · Health care (3 works) · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (3 works) · Information seeking (3 works)