Sharenting, is it a good or a bad thing? Understanding how adolescents think and feel about sharenting on social network sites
By Karen Verswijvel, Michel Walrave, Kris Hardies, Wannes Heirman. Children and youth services review, 2019
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It is common nowadays for parents to share information about their children on social network sites (SNSs). However, little is known on how adolescents think and feel about this sharenting behavior. Therefore, this study explores adolescents' perception of the reasons why parents share information about their adolescent children on SNSs, and adolescents' attitudes toward sharenting. A survey study was conducted among 817 adolescents. Factor analyses pointed toward four perceived sharenting motives: parental advice motives, social motives, impression management motives, and informative-archiving motives. Adolescents believed that parents mainly shared information about their children due to informative-archiving motives. They believed that parental advice motives were less common. Preliminary analyses pointed out that adolescents largely disapproved of sharenting. They mainly considered it as embarrassing and useless. Regression analysis indicated that when adolescents perceived sharenting as an impression management issue, the more negative their attitudes were toward sharenting. Conversely, the more adolescents thought that parents shared information about their children due to informative-archiving motives, the less they disapproved of sharenting. Additionally, when adolescents themselves disclosed more personal information or when they were more often confronted with sharenting, they had more positive attitudes toward sharenting. Adolescents who were more concerned about their online privacy, were more likely to disapprove of sharenting.
Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science
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- Sharenting and the extended self: self-representation in parents’ Instagram presentations of their children (2020, background): “The extant literature has raised concerns about the effects of sharenting on children’s psychology and identity (Leckart, 2012; Verswijvel et al., 2019), suggesting that the practice complicates the formation of children’s identities since they are already prevalently depicted online (Van der…”