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Rains, Stephen A. and David M. Keating. 2015. Health Blogging: An Examination of the Outcomes Associated With Making Public, Written Disclosures About Health. Communication Research 42 (1) : 107–133.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

Some parts of bloggers' public, written revelations on their (specific) illness-linked experiences are slightly related to advanced well-being: use of insight words lowers health-linked uncertainty and raises life goal amid more frequent posters. Besides, more often commenting readers’ use of negative emotion words is connected to bloggers' enhanced personal development perceptions.