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 |








