Relationships, technology and the role of living arrangements during social lockdown related to COVID-19

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2023-05-17 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16805990108608

C. Cascalheira, M. McCormack, L. Wignall

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COVID-19-related social lockdowns had profound consequences in all aspects of social life, yet technology’s role in mediating relationships during lockdown has received little attention. Drawing on a survey of 565 young adults in the UK, we used mixed methods to explore (a) differences in technology use by people in serious romantic relationships (cohabiting vs. living apart together), casual relationships or single; and (b) how COVID-19 influenced long-term, serious relationships. For participants in a serious relationship, technology was used as a strategy to facilitate ongoing communication, enabling partners to achieve ‘intimacy from afar’. Qualitative analysis revealed five reasons (more free time, navigating lockdown restrictions, greater boredom, desire for love and miscellaneous) for online dating profile usage changes. People in serious relationships perceived deeper intimate bonds, boundary issues, less physical intimacy, difficulty with lockdown separation and greater negative impact because of COVID-19. Limitations and implications are discussed.

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与COVID-19相关的社会封锁期间，人际关系、技术和生活安排的作用

与covid -19相关的社交封锁对社会生活的各个方面都产生了深远的影响，但技术在封锁期间调解关系的作用却很少受到关注。根据对英国565名年轻人的调查，我们采用了混合方法来探索:(a)处于严肃恋爱关系(同居vs分开住)、非正式关系或单身的人在使用技术方面的差异;(b) COVID-19如何影响长期、认真的关系。对于一段认真关系的参与者来说，科技被用作一种促进持续沟通的策略，使伴侣能够实现“异地恋”。定性分析揭示了在线约会资料使用变化的五个原因(更多的空闲时间、浏览封锁限制、更无聊、对爱情的渴望和其他原因)。处于严肃关系中的人感受到更深的亲密关系、边界问题、更少的身体亲密、难以隔离以及COVID-19带来的更大负面影响。讨论了局限性和影响。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.