Thomas A Diprete, Jennifer L Jennings
Social and behavioral skills and the gender gap in early educational achievement
Social science research
covid19 pandemic led substantial increase health information turn caused significant rise cyberchondria anxiety among individuals search webbased medical information cope information overload safeguard mental wellbeing individuals may adopt various strategies however effectiveness strategies mitigating negative effects information overload promoting overall wellbeing remains uncertain study aimed investigate moderating effect coping strategies relationship infodemicdriven misuse health care depression cyberchondria findings could add new dimension understanding psychological impacts infodemic especially context global health crisis moderating effect different coping strategies relationship overuse health care cyberchondria anxiety data used study obtained crosssectional webbased survey professional survey company contracted collect data using webbased panel survey completed chinese individuals aged 18 years older without cognitive problems model parameters relationships infodemicdriven overuse health care cyberchondria anxiety analyzed using bootstrapped partial least squares structural equation modeling additionally moderating effects coping strategies aforementioned relationships also examined total 986 respondents completed webbased survey mean scores generalized anxiety disorder7 cyberchondria severity scale12 84 sd 38 397 sd 75 respectively mean score problemfocused coping higher emotion avoidantfocused coping significantly positive relationship high level infodemic increased overuse health care bootstrapped mean 021 sd 003 95 ci 015810271 overuse health care resulted severe cyberchondria bootstrapped mean 0107 sd 0032 higher anxiety levels bootstrapped mean 0282 sd 0032 models emotion bootstrapped mean 002 sd 0008 0037 sd 0015 avoidant bootstrapped mean 0026 sd 0009 0049 sd 0016focused coping strategies significantly moderated relationship overuse health care cyberchondria overuse health care anxiety respectively regarding problembased model moderating effect significant relationship overuse health care anxiety bootstrapped mean 0007 sd 0011 95 ci 00050027 study provides empirical evidence impact coping strategies relationship infodemicrelated overuse health care services cyberchondria anxiety future research build findings study explore relationships develop test interventions aimed mitigating negative impact infodemic mental health