Gender Roles on Social Networking Sites: Investigating Reciprocal Relationships Between Dutch Adolescents’ Hypermasculinity and Hyperfemininity and Sexy Online Self-Presentations KU Leuven University of Antwerp
Previous research has suggested that adolescents play out stereotypical gender roles in their self-presentations in social media. However, longitudinal research on the relationships between (sexy) online self-presentation and adolescents’ gender role orientation is lacking. The present study investigated whether endorsing a stereotypical gender role orientation (i.e., hypermasculinity for boys, hyperfemininity for girls) predisposes adolescents ...