Table 2.

Correlations between Hypothesized Antecedents and Model Constructs

Hypothesized Antecedent	IM	PEOU	PU-EM
Satisfaction with medical care	0.335‡	0.229†	0.275‡
Health care knowledge	0.105	0.213†	0.081
Internet dependence	0.248†	0.221†	0.327‡
Information-seeking preference	0.175*	0.270†	0.209†
Number of physicians seen during the past 6 months	−0.011	−0.065	0.000
Number of visits to physician during the past 6 months	0.044	−0.116	−0.011
Chronic disease that requires special medical attention	−0.059	−0.047	0.031

IM = intrinsic motivation; PEOU = perceptions of ease of use; PU-EM = perceptions of usefulness–extrinsic motivation.

^*Significant at the 0.05 level.

^†Significant at the 0.01 level.

^‡Significant at the 0.001 level.