TY - JOUR
T1 - Latina Teens’ Identification with and Social Comparison to Mothers on Teen Mom
AU - Lewis, Nicky
AU - Norris, Anne E.
AU - Martins, Nicole
N1 - Funding Information:
for the collection of this data was provided by the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies and NINR (R01NR014851; PI, Norris).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Mass Communication & Society Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
PY - 2020/3/3
Y1 - 2020/3/3
N2 - A survey was conducted with low income Latina teens (M = 13.31 years of age) to examine the ways in which exposure, identification with, and social comparison to teen mothers featured on the MTV program Teen Mom influenced attitudes toward teen pregnancy. Analyses revealed that those who identified with and looked up to the teen mothers on Teen Mom were less likely to think getting pregnant would be embarrassing, a terrible event, or prevent them from achieving their dreams. The identification and upward social comparison processes observed here extend those observed in previous research across ethnic, income, and cultural differences. Implications regarding the potentially negative effects of portrayals of teen motherhood on Teen Mom are discussed.
AB - A survey was conducted with low income Latina teens (M = 13.31 years of age) to examine the ways in which exposure, identification with, and social comparison to teen mothers featured on the MTV program Teen Mom influenced attitudes toward teen pregnancy. Analyses revealed that those who identified with and looked up to the teen mothers on Teen Mom were less likely to think getting pregnant would be embarrassing, a terrible event, or prevent them from achieving their dreams. The identification and upward social comparison processes observed here extend those observed in previous research across ethnic, income, and cultural differences. Implications regarding the potentially negative effects of portrayals of teen motherhood on Teen Mom are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1080/15205436.2019.1682169
DO - 10.1080/15205436.2019.1682169
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074564821
VL - 23
SP - 206
EP - 229
JO - Mass Communication and Society
JF - Mass Communication and Society
SN - 1520-5436
IS - 2
ER -