Social Support for Japanese Mothers Online and Offline

The Internet in Everyday Life

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 520-548

  Miyata, Kakuko ^a  

^a MEIJI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS;

GENERALIZED RECIPROCITY; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; SENSE OF BELONGING; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL RELATIONS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84957610362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774298.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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