ArticleFrontiers in digital health2026
Empowering healthier lifestyles: patterns of digital tool use, self-efficacy, and affective balance in IBD-patients and a community sample.
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Background: When reaching health-related personal strivings, consistent self-management is crucial, which can be supported by digital technology use and online resources. Prior research highlights the importance of self-efficacy, emotional balance, and internet and digital empowerment as distinct but partly related resources; however, little is known about how these resources interact with each other. Objective: The current study aimed to explore how internet and digital empowerment, self-efficacy, and affective balance interact to support health-related personal strivings among IBD patients and a community sample. We hypothesized that these factors would form different and meaningful patterns that are differentially associated with psychological factors. Methods: A total of 308 participants (151 from a community sample and 157 with IBD) completed questionnaires assessing health-related personal strivings, internet and digital empowerment, self-efficacy, emotional balance, life satisfaction, depression, anxiety, stress, and health behaviors. Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was used to identify subgroups. Group comparisons were conducted using ANCOVA, adjusted for demographic and health-related covariates. Results: We found four latent profiles: "Highly Empowered Achievers" ( Conclusions: Internet and digital empowerment, self-efficacy, and affective balance formed four latent profiles associated with subjective health, psychological well-being, and goal attainment. Chronic disease management interventions could benefit from boosting digital competencies and emotional coping resources. Internet-based cognitive behavioral interventions may help address emotional balance and digital empowerment, though longitudinal studies are still needed to evaluate causal relationships.
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