Abstract
For college students, mental health is an important factor in ensuring their ability to study and have a normal life. This research focuses on factors affecting the mental health of college students in the information network society. We constructed a theoretical model that influences their online mental health information seeking behavior from internal and external perspectives, and by extension, affects their mental health. Through the data obtained by field research and questionnaire survey on the online mental health information seeking behavior of some college students in Internet health information platforms, a structural equation model is used to test the hypotheses. Results show that the quality of external Internet platforms and the quality of internal electronic health literacy have a significantly positive impact on the online health information searching behavior of college students; electronic health literacy and online mental health information seeking behavior have significantly direct positive effects on college students’ mental health. Further, online health information searching behavior has a significant mediating effect between Internet platform quality, electronic health literacy, and college students’ mental health. The research conclusions have theoretical value and practical significance to study the factors influencing college students’ mental health in the context of information network society.
Highlights
College students are one of the backbone forces for the future development of society [1].According to statistics, there are more than 40 million college students in China alone
Based on the internal and external perspectives, this paper explores the influence mechanism of college students’ mental health through the mediating role of online mental health information seeking behavior (OMHISB), which mainly has the following theoretical contributions: First, through empirical research methods, this paper puts forward the influence mechanism model of college students’ mental health and proves it
The results show that the three dimensions of Internet platform quality—information quality, system quality, and service quality—can effectively promote college students’ OMHISB, and can improve college students’ consciousness of actively searching for health information on Internet platforms [29,30]
Summary
College students are one of the backbone forces for the future development of society [1].According to statistics, there are more than 40 million college students in China alone. For college students living far away from their families, mental health is one of the important factors in ensuring their ability to study and have a normal life. The mental health problems of college students are mainly manifested in interpersonal communication disorders, Internet addiction, and emotional problems [2,3]. These mental health problems can lead to bad behaviors such as excessive drinking, illegal-drug use, skipping school, irritability, and even suicide, and can seriously affect college students0 ability to study and their quality of life. One could argue that the state of college students’ mental health is one of the most important issues that society should pay close attention to
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