Women in need -The nature of social support in an online community

Vanja Ida Govednik (Author), Tinkara Pavšič Mrevlje (Author)

Abstract

Some women, especially victims of violence, seek support in online groups. The objective of this research was to investigate the nature of the social support women receive in such online communities. For this purpose, all the posts from a large online support community group for women in Slovenia, Women in Need, from 2002 to the end of 2020 were retrieved and analyzed manually as well as by using a text-mining approach. The results show that women in the investigated community mostly seek informational support, spend little time actively contributing to online discussions, and rarely become engaged members of supportive groups within the focal online space. Some recommendations on how to improve the functionality of online social support sites are provided.

Keywords

spletna podpora;družbena podpora;nasilje nad ženskami;online support;social support;violence against women;

Data

Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2023
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UM FVV - Faculty of Criminal Justice
Publisher:	MDPI
UDC:	[159.9+316.472.4]:343.62-055.2
COBISS:	162840323
ISSN:	2076-328X
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Other data

Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary keywords:	spletna podpora;socialna podpora;nasilje nad ženskami;
Type (COBISS):	Scientific work
Pages:	12 str.
Volume:	ǂiss. ǂ9
Issue:	[article no.] 726
Chronology:	30 Aug. 2023
DOI:	10.3390/bs13090726
ID:	21492980