Table 5.

Bivariate Analyses to Examine Relationship between TeHLI Scores and Related Variables

Participant Characteristics	Functional eHealth Literacy	Communicative eHealth Literacy	Critical eHealth Literacy	Translational eHealth Literacy
User-Oriented Characteristic
Age	−0.09	−0.27***	−0.10	−0.21**
Gendera	0.06	0.21***	0.16	0.15*
Raceb	−0.01	0.04	0.05	0.01
Ethnicityc	0.09	−0.11	−0.03	−0.06
Education	0.16**	0.09	0.03	0.09
Income	−0.02	−0.09	−0.11	0.01
Marriedd	−0.23	−0.04	−0.07	−0.02
Number of chronic diseases	0.05	0.18**	0.02	0.13*
Task/Technology-Oriented Characteristics
Internet use for health in past 12 months	0.14*	0.17**	0.22**	0.32**
Number of social media platforms used	0.05	0.26***	0.13*	0.16**
Number of digital devices used	0.11	0.20**	0.13*	0.18**
Online Health Information Seeking Strategies
Interactive online health information seeking	0.20***	0.52***	0.33***	0.30***
Active online health information seeking	0.36***	0.43***	0.31***	0.49***
eHealth Perceptions
Perceived online health information seeking challenges	−0.27***	−0.46***	−0.36***	−0.36***
Perceived usefulness of the Internet for health	0.35***	0.50***	0.41***	0.63***

Note.

^aMale = 0, Female = 1

^bWhite = 0, Non-white = 1

^cHispanic = 1, Non-Hispanic = 0

^dNo = 0; Yes = 1

^*P < .05

^**P < .01

^***P < .001