Doing Gender Online: New Mothers’ Psychological Characteristics, Facebook Use, and Depressive Symptoms

Sex Roles

Volumn 76, Issue 5-6, 2017, Pages 276-289

  Schoppe Sullivan, Sarah J ^a   Yavorsky, Jill E ^a   Bartholomew, Mitchell K ^b   Sullivan, Jason M ^a   Lee, Meghan A ^a   Dush, Claire M Kamp ^a   Glassman, Michael ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Doing gender; Motherhood; Online social networking; Perfectionism; Transition to parenthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969802482     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-016-0640-z     Document Type: Article

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