Factors of collective psychological empowerment of active users in the online health community med.over.net

Abstract

Objective: This paper investigates the collective psychological empowerment of users of online health communities, which has been often overlooked in literature. Drawing on the theories of empowerment in the context of community psychology, it explores the factors - that are also an important characteristic of online health communities - that are associated with the collective psychological empowerment of online health community users.

Keywords

• opolnomočenje
• občutek pripadnosti skupnosti
• spletne zdravstvene skupnosti
• participacija v skupnosti
• empowerment
• sense of community
• online health communities
• community participation