Publications

Publication details [#60755]

Chae, Jiyoung. 2015. “Am I a Better Mother Than You?” Media and 21st-Century Motherhood in the Context of the Social Comparison Theory: “Am I a Better Mother Than You?” Media and 21st-Century Motherhood in the Context of the Social Comparison Theory. Communication Research 42 (4) : 503–525.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

behavior | influencing | internet | mass media | mother

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This survey amid 533 Korean mothers, discloses that online celebrity mom talk and childrearing information exposure was linked to the approval of intense mothering ideology, social comparison orientation (SCO), or competitiveness, at least among outdoors working mothers.