大学生网络社会支持与网络社区归属感的关系：网络虚拟幸福感的中介效应

目的：考察大学生网络社会支持与网络社区归属感的关系,并探讨网络虚拟幸福感在其中的中介作用。方法：采用青少年网络社会支持量表,大学生网络社区归属感问卷,大学生虚拟幸福感问卷对450名大学生进行测查。结果：①大学生网络社会支持能够显著正向预测网络社区归属感（β＝0．58,P＜0．001）;②大学生网络虚拟幸福感能够显著正向预测网络社区归属感（β＝0．52,P＜0．001）;③大学生网络虚拟幸福感在网络社会支持与网络社区归属感之间起部分中介作用,且部分中介作用占44．6％;④优势分析发现,网络社会支持比网络虚拟幸福感更能有效预测网络社区归属感（57．7％＞42．2％）。结论：大学生网络社会支持不仅直接影响网络社区归属感,而且通过网络虚拟幸福感的中介作用影响网络社区归属感。     

Adolescents with tracheostomies—Communications in cyberspace

Objective

Social networking sites such as Facebook are popular avenues of social discourse among adolescents and young adults, allowing for communication through photographs, videos, and chat features. These websites are also emerging as portals for health-centered support groups, bringing together people with common medical conditions. Adolescents with tracheostomies represent a special and vulnerable patient population. Our aim was to determine whether this particular group of patients found Facebook to be a suitable environment in which to network with other users with tracheostomies.

Methods

We used our institution's tracheostomy database to obtain a list of all patients between ages of 11-18. We identified 33 patients in this category, and completed a chart review to determine their medical diagnoses as well as age at trach placement. We determined that of these 33 patients, 24 had severe neurocognitive delays that would render them unable to participate in the study. We contacted the remaining nine subjects and obtained appropriate consent for their participation in the study.

Results

Of the nine subjects with tracheostomies who completed our survey, four were actively involved with the Facebook community. Two of the four subjects regularly connected with people that they had not met in person, and all four subjects shared the fact that they had a tracheostomy with the Facebook community. Three of the four subjects posted pictures of themselves with their trach sites visible. Finally, three of the four subjects stated that they met and communicated with other Facebook members with tracheostomies.

Conclusions

Social networking sites such as Facebook appear to offer an appropriate avenue for adolescents with tracheostomies to network with other users with tracheostomies. Further studies are warranted to assess the reach and social impact of these networking sites as portals of health-centered support groups, however, social networking sites and the cyberspace community may be a promising source of support for adolescents with tracheotomies.