Latina Teens’ Identification with and Social Comparison to Mothers on Teen Mom

Nicky Lewis; Anne E. Norris; Nicole Martins

doi:10.1080/15205436.2019.1682169

Latina Teens’ Identification with and Social Comparison to Mothers on Teen Mom

Nicky Lewis
, Anne E. Norris
, Nicole Martins

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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.

Idioma original	English
Páginas (desde-hasta)	206-229
Número de páginas	24
Publicación	Mass Communication and Society
Volumen	23
N.º	2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2019.1682169
Estado	Published - mar 3 2020

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© 2019, © 2019 Mass Communication & Society Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

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for the collection of this data was provided by the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies and NINR (R01NR014851; PI, Norris).

Financiadores	Número del financiador
University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies
National Institute of Health National Institute of Nursing Research	R01NR014851
National Institute of Health National Institute of Nursing Research

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