...Jiaer Peng; Yuehua Zhao; Kejun Chen; Ningyuan Song Purpose Online health communities (OHCs) have become essential platforms for users to share health-related information and manage self-care. A central element in these interactions is self-disclosure—the sharing of personal health information...

...Nava Rothschild; Noa Aharony Purpose This study explores the motivations for sharing personal information and self-disclosure by mentally ill people in public and private Facebook groups. The purpose of the self-disclosure comparison between public and private groups is to understand how mentally...

... of medical support groups tend to feel that they receive more support and feel that the privacy policy preserves their privacy much more. These feelings are associated with greater self-disclosure of groups' members. Originality/value The research insights will help medical support groups' members...

... and share in online health communities (OHCs) including informational seeking, situational seeking, objective information sharing and experiential information sharing. The results indicate that threads with self-disclosure could receive more replies and attract more users to contribute. This study also...

... nuances to the understanding of the role of social capital in advertising. Finally, this study provides practical suggestions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Capital Advertising Social Mobile Self-disclosure SoLoMo Researchers have developed various persuasion models...

...Noa Aharony Purpose – Due to the growth of Facebook use, the question arises regarding which factors may influence individuals’ self-disclosure while using the site. The purpose of this paper is to examine: first, to what extent does attachment theory explain users’ self-disclosure on Facebook...

...Maria Knoll; Jenny Bronstein Purpose – The study aimed to investigate the information disclosure behavior of women bloggers who suffer from infertility by examining their self-disclosure as it relates to the anonymity patterns they adopted. Design/methodology/approach – A survey...

...Jenny Bronstein Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate the creation of a virtual presence in personal blogs through self‐presentation and self‐disclosure. Five elements of self‐presentation and self‐disclosure were examined: the way bloggers present themselves in their blogs; the degree...