Elizabeth M Glowacki
Biographic Data
| ID | 85185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth M Glowacki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth M |
| FAMILY NAME | Glowacki |
| SIGNATURE | GLOWACKI E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7870-3206 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Raising Concussion Awareness among Amateur Athletes: An Examination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Heads Up Campaign
Attention to concussion prevention and management has grown in recent years due to the potentially long-term, debilitating effects a head injury can have on an individual. Although multiple campaigns have been designed to target this issue, there remains a need to evaluate the persuasive principles used to advocate for safety measures and protocols, specifically within youth sports. With this in mind, we applied the health belief model (HBM) in o…
Art Advocacy: Applying a Public Memory Rhetorical Framework to Health Crisis Communication
Health campaigns and public health messaging strategies often rely on text-based efforts to communicate with audiences. As research grows in the areas of health and visual media, this essay puts a rhetorical framework of public memory in conversation with health campaign communication to show possibilities for audiences who are less likely to be moved by traditional institutional health narratives. The artifact for analysis is an art installation…
Promoting Patient Portals: An Application of Social Cognitive Theory to Post-Adoption Patient Portal Use
Many healthcare clinics encourage the use of online patient portals so that patients can have easier access to their health information, yet some patients are hesitant to interact with these portals. We used social cognitive theory to develop and test a theoretically grounded model that incorporates several (1) technological factors, (2) individual factors, and (3) social factors that influence individuals’ post-adoption, active use of patient po…
A Social Ties-based Approach to Breast Cancer Patients’ Quality of Life: Examining Group Ties and Individual Ties across Offline and Online Settings
Supportive social ties positively impact cancer patients' health; however, little is known about the intertwined links between both offline and online ties, and individual and group ties. Using the common-identity/common-bond approach, we empirically tested the critical difference that individual and group ties exert on health across offline and online settings. Results from 356 female breast cancer patients showed group ties affect quality of li…
Technological capital within aging United States-based populations: Challenges and recommendations for online intervention uptake
Aging adults experience a disproportionate number of health-related problems. We applied a technological capital framework to assess how participation in web-delivered interventions is influenced by resources, perceived support, technology skills, and an overall environment conducive to making a change. Specifically, we conducted an in-depth examination of the uses and attitudes regarding online health information technologies among 41 middle-age…
Reactions to depression disclosure on Facebook: Evaluating the effects of self-presentation style and peer comments
Computer-mediated communication is becoming an increasingly popular medium for mental illness self-disclosure. However, little is known about how observers respond to such disclosures (e.g., support or rejections). Using Facebook as a medium of communication, we experimentally examined how different depression disclosure posts can lead to different reactions from observers. In two experimental studies, we examined how (a) the self-presentation us…
The Language of Women's Pain: Ideology and Critical Cultural Competencies in Pain Literacy
This manuscript is concerned with a key tension in health communication: How women’s pain is rhetorically constructed and culturally consumed. To date, there has been much research devoted to communicating the language of pain, rather, pain’s expressibility (Scarry, 1985), as well as the construction of health narratives from private pain into public action (Kimball, 2000). Building on that literature, we make a rhetorical turn, and argue for a m…
Health Hyperbolism: A Study in Health Crisis Rhetoric
The Ebola virus had only been in the United States for 2 months before it became a major national health concern. However, while some citizens panicked about the looming health crisis, others remained calm, offering explanations for why a rapid spread of the virus was unlikely. Examining the distinctions between these different reactions can contribute to a better understanding of the coping strategies citizens use when facing a health crisis. We…
Hate the Sin, Love the Saints: Activities Versus Actors in Message Design
The reported study investigated the persuasive effects of nouns describing activities and their human actors in message design. Fictitious op-ed essays were created from the point of view of authors taking a complimentary or critical stance on two controversial topics. Different versions were created in which activity nouns ( immigration, cosmetic surgery) or actor nouns ( immigrants, cosmetic surgeons) referring to the topics were manipulated or…
Public reactions to e-cigarette regulations on Twitter: A text mining analysis
In the days following the FDA's announcement of the new deeming regulations, the public reaction on Twitter was largely negative. Public health advocates should consider using social media outlets to better communicate the policy's intentions, reach and potential impact for public good to create a more balanced conversation
Examining Sibling Communication About Problematic Drinking: An Application of Inconsistent Nurturing as Control Theory
This study applies inconsistent nurturing as control (INC) theory to examine how siblings describe communicating about problematic drinking. Thirty-five college students reported on how they and a sibling discuss drinking that is perceived as problematic and described behaviors related to the problematic drinking. Interviews were transcribed and coded in two separate rounds of coding; the first round identified categories related to INC theory (r…
Reconceptualizing Communication Overload and Building a Theoretical Foundation: Communication Overload
This study reconceptualizes communication overload and builds a theoretical foundation to understand how this phenomenon applies in contemporary life. We build theory by relying on past research and using a Q-method to capture the subjective perspectives of people who experience communication overload. In our refinement of this abstract concept, we identified seven dimensions composing communication overload. The dimensions included: compromising…
Empowering Questions Affect How People Construe Their Behavior: Why How You Ask Matters in Self-Attributions for Physical Exercise and Healthy Eating
Subtle manipulations of wording can significantly affect behavior. We examine differences in how people respond to empowering questions (e.g., “What could you do to exercise more?”) compared with disempowering questions (e.g., “Why aren’t you exercising more?”). Responding to two different topics (exercise and eating behavior), participants in empowering question conditions offered more solutions in their responses, placed more responsibility on …
Toward a Better Understanding of Patient Health Literacy: A Focus on the Skills Patients Need to Find Health Information
While many health literacy assessments exist, this area of research lacks an instrument that isolates and reflects the four components driving this concept (abilities to find, understand, use, and communicate about health information). The purpose of this study was to determine what abilities comprise the first component, how a patient finds health information. Low ( n = 13) and adequate ( n = 14) health literacy patients, and health professional…
Reconceptualizing Communication Overload and Building a Theoretical Foundation: Communication Overload
This study reconceptualizes communication overload and builds a theoretical foundation to understand how this phenomenon applies in contemporary life. We build theory by relying on past research and using a Q-method to capture the subjective perspectives of people who experience communication overload. In our refinement of this abstract concept, we identified seven dimensions composing communication overload. The dimensions included: compromising…
Toward a Better Understanding of Patient Health Literacy: A Focus on the Skills Patients Need to Find Health Information
While many health literacy assessments exist, this area of research lacks an instrument that isolates and reflects the four components driving this concept (abilities to find, understand, use, and communicate about health information). The purpose of this study was to determine what abilities comprise the first component, how a patient finds health information. Low ( n = 13) and adequate ( n = 14) health literacy patients, and health professional…
Public reactions to e-cigarette regulations on Twitter: A text mining analysis
In the days following the FDA's announcement of the new deeming regulations, the public reaction on Twitter was largely negative. Public health advocates should consider using social media outlets to better communicate the policy's intentions, reach and potential impact for public good to create a more balanced conversation
Examining Sibling Communication About Problematic Drinking: An Application of Inconsistent Nurturing as Control Theory
This study applies inconsistent nurturing as control (INC) theory to examine how siblings describe communicating about problematic drinking. Thirty-five college students reported on how they and a sibling discuss drinking that is perceived as problematic and described behaviors related to the problematic drinking. Interviews were transcribed and coded in two separate rounds of coding; the first round identified categories related to INC theory (r…
Reconceptualizing Communication Overload and Building a Theoretical Foundation: Communication Overload
This study reconceptualizes communication overload and builds a theoretical foundation to understand how this phenomenon applies in contemporary life. We build theory by relying on past research and using a Q-method to capture the subjective perspectives of people who experience communication overload. In our refinement of this abstract concept, we identified seven dimensions composing communication overload. The dimensions included: compromising…
Empowering Questions Affect How People Construe Their Behavior: Why How You Ask Matters in Self-Attributions for Physical Exercise and Healthy Eating
Subtle manipulations of wording can significantly affect behavior. We examine differences in how people respond to empowering questions (e.g., “What could you do to exercise more?”) compared with disempowering questions (e.g., “Why aren’t you exercising more?”). Responding to two different topics (exercise and eating behavior), participants in empowering question conditions offered more solutions in their responses, placed more responsibility on …
Toward a Better Understanding of Patient Health Literacy: A Focus on the Skills Patients Need to Find Health Information
While many health literacy assessments exist, this area of research lacks an instrument that isolates and reflects the four components driving this concept (abilities to find, understand, use, and communicate about health information). The purpose of this study was to determine what abilities comprise the first component, how a patient finds health information. Low ( n = 13) and adequate ( n = 14) health literacy patients, and health professional…
Hate the Sin, Love the Saints: Activities Versus Actors in Message Design
The reported study investigated the persuasive effects of nouns describing activities and their human actors in message design. Fictitious op-ed essays were created from the point of view of authors taking a complimentary or critical stance on two controversial topics. Different versions were created in which activity nouns ( immigration, cosmetic surgery) or actor nouns ( immigrants, cosmetic surgeons) referring to the topics were manipulated or…
The Language of Women's Pain: Ideology and Critical Cultural Competencies in Pain Literacy
This manuscript is concerned with a key tension in health communication: How women’s pain is rhetorically constructed and culturally consumed. To date, there has been much research devoted to communicating the language of pain, rather, pain’s expressibility (Scarry, 1985), as well as the construction of health narratives from private pain into public action (Kimball, 2000). Building on that literature, we make a rhetorical turn, and argue for a m…
Health Hyperbolism: A Study in Health Crisis Rhetoric
The Ebola virus had only been in the United States for 2 months before it became a major national health concern. However, while some citizens panicked about the looming health crisis, others remained calm, offering explanations for why a rapid spread of the virus was unlikely. Examining the distinctions between these different reactions can contribute to a better understanding of the coping strategies citizens use when facing a health crisis. We…
Promoting Patient Portals: An Application of Social Cognitive Theory to Post-Adoption Patient Portal Use
Many healthcare clinics encourage the use of online patient portals so that patients can have easier access to their health information, yet some patients are hesitant to interact with these portals. We used social cognitive theory to develop and test a theoretically grounded model that incorporates several (1) technological factors, (2) individual factors, and (3) social factors that influence individuals’ post-adoption, active use of patient po…
A Social Ties-based Approach to Breast Cancer Patients’ Quality of Life: Examining Group Ties and Individual Ties across Offline and Online Settings
Supportive social ties positively impact cancer patients' health; however, little is known about the intertwined links between both offline and online ties, and individual and group ties. Using the common-identity/common-bond approach, we empirically tested the critical difference that individual and group ties exert on health across offline and online settings. Results from 356 female breast cancer patients showed group ties affect quality of li…
Technological capital within aging United States-based populations: Challenges and recommendations for online intervention uptake
Aging adults experience a disproportionate number of health-related problems. We applied a technological capital framework to assess how participation in web-delivered interventions is influenced by resources, perceived support, technology skills, and an overall environment conducive to making a change. Specifically, we conducted an in-depth examination of the uses and attitudes regarding online health information technologies among 41 middle-age…
Reactions to depression disclosure on Facebook: Evaluating the effects of self-presentation style and peer comments
Computer-mediated communication is becoming an increasingly popular medium for mental illness self-disclosure. However, little is known about how observers respond to such disclosures (e.g., support or rejections). Using Facebook as a medium of communication, we experimentally examined how different depression disclosure posts can lead to different reactions from observers. In two experimental studies, we examined how (a) the self-presentation us…
Raising Concussion Awareness among Amateur Athletes: An Examination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Heads Up Campaign
Attention to concussion prevention and management has grown in recent years due to the potentially long-term, debilitating effects a head injury can have on an individual. Although multiple campaigns have been designed to target this issue, there remains a need to evaluate the persuasive principles used to advocate for safety measures and protocols, specifically within youth sports. With this in mind, we applied the health belief model (HBM) in o…
Art Advocacy: Applying a Public Memory Rhetorical Framework to Health Crisis Communication
Health campaigns and public health messaging strategies often rely on text-based efforts to communicate with audiences. As research grows in the areas of health and visual media, this essay puts a rhetorical framework of public memory in conversation with health campaign communication to show possibilities for audiences who are less likely to be moved by traditional institutional health narratives. The artifact for analysis is an art installation…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Communication (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Public health (4 works)