Version 1
: Received: 15 December 2023 / Approved: 17 December 2023 / Online: 18 December 2023 (09:10:29 CET)
How to cite:
Fenton, A.; Erak, A.; Konkle, A.T. A Place for Women and Women's Issues: An Examination of Narratives on Postpartum Depression Self-Disclosure on Pinterest. Preprints2023, 2023121244. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1244.v1
Fenton, A.; Erak, A.; Konkle, A.T. A Place for Women and Women's Issues: An Examination of Narratives on Postpartum Depression Self-Disclosure on Pinterest. Preprints 2023, 2023121244. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1244.v1
Fenton, A.; Erak, A.; Konkle, A.T. A Place for Women and Women's Issues: An Examination of Narratives on Postpartum Depression Self-Disclosure on Pinterest. Preprints2023, 2023121244. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1244.v1
APA Style
Fenton, A., Erak, A., & Konkle, A.T. (2023). A Place for Women and Women's Issues: An Examination of Narratives on Postpartum Depression Self-Disclosure on Pinterest. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1244.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Fenton, A., Aleksandra Erak and Anne TM Konkle. 2023 "A Place for Women and Women's Issues: An Examination of Narratives on Postpartum Depression Self-Disclosure on Pinterest" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1244.v1
Abstract
This study aimed to expand and inform the growing body of research on Postpartum Depression, from a netnographic standpoint, for the social media platform of Pinterest. More specifically, it aimed to assess the type of content present on Pinterest regarding Postpartum Depression shared by women in 2018 and 2021, as well as examine the subjective experience of women who have experienced this mood disorder. Data were collected following a search using the keywords “Postpartum Depression” on Pinterest on two separate timestamps (2018 and 2021); pins were limited to those in English or French. Master themes were identified among all pins and those identified as “self-disclosure” were subsequently further analyzed. Self-disclosure data were separately analysed using thematic analysis, specifically adopting a deductive thematic approach for the 2021 data set stemming from the coding scheme created from analysis of the 2018 data. Major themes were identified, and an analysis of frequency was performed for each sub-theme, along with qualitative examples associated with each theme. A total of 483 Pinterest pins from two different time points of 2018 (169 pins) and 2021 (314 sample pins) were analyzed. Five primary categories were identified in both 2018 and 2021, with five additional categories being identified in the 2021 dataset. Comparative results from 2018 and 2021 self-disclosure pins show individuals’ varying yet similar subjective manifestations of PPD, the potential need to adopt a multidisciplinary treatment approach, and the societal fears, such as mental health stigma, that are playing a part in help-seeking behavior hesitancies. Our findings provide imperative insight into individuals’ subjective experiences with PPD; experiences that involve a sensitive and vulnerable topic. Netnographic research, along with Pinterest, must be taken into consideration for future work delving into women’s health issues, including those surrounding perinatal mental health.
Keywords
self-disclosure, postpartum depression, netnography, Pinterest, perinatal mental health, and women’s health
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public Health and Health Services
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
