Introduction: Online mental health communities may provide new opportunities for rehabilitation for people with mental illness, so it is important to understand the factors that influence the continued use of online mental health communities by people with mental illness. Methods: From the perspective of empowerment, based on the theory of health self-efficacy and expectation confirmation, this study explored the mediating role of health self-efficacy and expectation confirmation in the empowerment process of patients in online mental health communities and users’ intention to continue using online mental health communities. To verify this model, we obtained 272 valid questionnaires. The SmartPLS 3.0 software was selected for model construction and empirical analysis. Results: Health self-efficacy completely mediates the relationship between the empowerment process (i.e., emotional support, information support, helping others and sharing experiences) and users’ intention to continue using an online mental health community. Expectation confirmation partially mediates the relationship between the empowerment process (i.e., information support and finding recognition) and users’ intention to continue using an online mental health community. Conclusion: The empowerment process is the main predictor of user health self-efficacy and expectation confirmation. This study has certain theoretical and practical significance for online mental health community research.
This paper analyzes the Chinese nationalism or patriotism embodied in Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” discourse. It first reviews the “typological tradition” of categorizing nationalism into different types, for instance, banal, hot and cultural nationalism. Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” discourse goes beyond the explanation of these distinct types of nationalism. Instead, it embodies a “hybrid” type of nationalism/patriotism that is at once banal, state, cultural, and “de-banalized”. This study adopts a dialectical-relational perspective by viewing the “Chinese Dream” discourse as representations of social practices through which politicians utilize a wide range of discursive resources including thematic, evaluative and cultural representations to evoke the imagination of a common identity in support of their governance. Through the analysis, this study advocates a holistic view of nationalism in real political practices; it also focuses on how nationalism is evoked and propagated through the integration of various discursive resources embodying a hybrid type of nationalism.
This study examines how academic writers use lexical cohesion (LC) in research articles (RAs) and what the features of LC are, since the appropriate use of LC promotes the coherence of academic discourse. Through stratified random sampling, 30 articles were selected from Applied Linguistics. With the adoption of Coh-Metrix and manual coding, the analysis found that repetition was overwhelmingly-used (91%) in scholarly journal writings, whereas hyponymy was adopted least, only occupying 1% collectively. Moreover, the use of LC significantly related to the structure of RAs, that is, Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussion/conclusion (IMRD) (χ 2 = 29.476, p = .000 < .05). LC, as a whole, is most frequently-used in Introduction. The adoption of repetition, synonymy, and meronymy significantly related to IMRD structure. Furthermore, it is assumed that synonymy is prone to be context-dependent, in the meanwhile, hyponymy and antonymy are content-oriented. Ultimately, it is hoped that the ways concluded to use LC can help writers build coherent discourse in academic writings.
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