Table 4.

Mediating role of social media self-efficacy in the relationship between eHealth literacy and health communication intention (N = 958).

Variable	Step 1. Social media self-efficacy				Step 2. Health communication intention				Step 3. Health communication intention
	B	β	t	p	B	β	t	P	B	β	t	p
Academic year	−0.54	−0.03	−0.94	0.348	0.06	0.03	1.09	0.276	0.08	0.04	1.40	0.161
Monthly household income	3.84	0.18	3.74	0.000	0.10	0.05	0.95	0.341	−0.01	0.00	−0.09	0.930
Knowledge of health communication	−0.21	−0.01	−0.36	0.719	0.02	0.01	0.28	0.780	0.02	0.01	0.39	0.694
Media related training	−4.29	−0.21	−2.42	0.016	−0.39	−0.20	−2.10	0.036	−0.26	−0.14	−1.48	0.140
Nursing experience	2.92	0.14	2.30	0.022	−0.05	−0.03	−0.40	0.691	−0.14	−0.07	−1.08	0.283
eHealth literacy	1.07	0.68	26.55	< 0.001	0.08	0.57	19.80	< 0.001	0.05	0.36	9.80	< 0.001
Social media self-efficacy									0.03	0.31	8.89	< 0.001
R 2	0.48				0.35				0.40
F	147.82				85.76				90.84
P	< 0.001				< 0.001				< 0.001

B, The standardized regression coefficient; β, The unstandardized regression coefficient.