Indirect Digital Capital and the Ambivalent Home Effect: Skills and Digital Action Searching for Health Information
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digital divide, digital self-efficacy, family, digital capital, digital health literacyAbstract
The research analyses the factors that influence the search for health information online in Andalusia. The survey on digitisation and the use of personal data conducted by the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia (2021) was used. Through binary logistic regression analysis, the results show how the intensity and diversity of internet use, as well as the level of self-efficacy and the perception of risks associated with privacy, condition searching for health information on the internet. Finally, these results suggest that digital divides should be analysed from a relational perspective, showing the ambivalence of the phenomenon. Indirect access to digital capital within the home can mitigate the digital exclusion of its members, but without eliminating previous inequalities.
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