Mother to Mother: Mothers' Social Comparison-Based Emotions on Social Networking Sites

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dc.authoridTOSUN, LEMAN PINAR/0000-0003-1635-6629
dc.authoridOzturk, Ahu/0000-0003-0349-7342
dc.contributor.authorTosun, Leman Pinar
dc.contributor.authorOzturk, Ahu
dc.contributor.authorOzdemir, Gamze
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T20:57:46Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T20:57:46Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractSocial networking sites (SNSs) are platforms where people make social comparisons very frequently, and because of those comparisons, they have the potential for evoking a wide range of emotions. According to typology of social comparison-based emotions, the emotions felt after social comparisons may vary according to the direction of comparison (upward vs. downward) as well as the internal process that triggered by those comparisons (assimilation vs. contrast). The current study aims to examine the mothers' emotions they felt after social comparisons they make with other mothers on the SNSs, and search out the usefulness of using the typology of social comparison-based emotions in examining those emotions. For this purpose, an online survey was conducted on 42 mothers between the ages of 20 and 48, who have been a member of SNSs for at least six months. Mothers responses to two open-ended questions; one is about the emotions they feel after upward comparisons, and the other is about the ones that they felt after downward comparison they made with other mothers on SNSs, were examined through thematic analyses. The results pointed out that the emotion classification offered in Smith's theory might be useful in examining the social comparisons on SNSs made by mothers, with the addition of some new categories. Specifically, it was found that some mothers feel doubts about the credibility of information in other mothers' posts, and some others denied they are emotionally influenced by social comparisons. Another interesting finding was that mothers reported to feel assimilative and contrastive emotions simultaneously.
dc.identifier.doi10.5964/ejop.v16i4.2159
dc.identifier.endpage618
dc.identifier.issn1841-0413
dc.identifier.issue4
dc.identifier.pmid33680201
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85097305589
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage602
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v16i4.2159
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/26484
dc.identifier.volume16
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000594495100005
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPsychopen
dc.relation.ispartofEuropes Journal of Psychology
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectmotherhood
dc.subjectsocial network sites
dc.subjectsocial comparison theory
dc.subjectsocial comparison-based emotions
dc.subjectassimilation vs. contrast
dc.titleMother to Mother: Mothers' Social Comparison-Based Emotions on Social Networking Sites
dc.typeArticle

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