Department of Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology, University of California Santa Barbara , Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Department of Counseling, San Francisco State University , San Francisco, California, USA.
J Homosex. 2021 Mar 21;68(4):560-576. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2020.1868183. Epub 2021 Jan 11.
Social media serves as a key mechanism for sexual minority young adults to connect with peers and to learn about COVID-19. We utilized focus groups to explore how sexual minority gender expansive college women (= 28) engage with social media, including alcohol-related content on social networking sites. Two focus groups were held in-person during the month before the campus closed on March 10, 2020 due to a shelter-in-place mandate. Focus groups were then moved online, and also assessed how engagement with social media, including alcohol-related content, changed in response to COVID-19 at one month and two months into shelter-in-place. Using social media to connect with sexual and gender minority (SGM) content and community was a prominent theme across the three cohorts of data collection. Social drinking via social networking sites became increasingly prominent during shelter-in-place as a way to combat isolation, boredom, and the general stress of coping with COVID-19.
社交媒体是性少数青年群体与同龄人建立联系和了解 COVID-19 的关键机制。我们利用焦点小组探讨了性少数性别扩张的大学女性（=28 人）如何使用社交媒体，包括社交网站上与酒精相关的内容。2020 年 3 月 10 日，由于就地避难所的命令，校园关闭前一个月，我们举行了两次面对面的焦点小组。然后，焦点小组转移到了网上，并评估了在就地避难所一个月和两个月时，社交媒体的参与度（包括与酒精相关的内容）如何因 COVID-19 而发生变化。使用社交媒体与性少数群体（SGM）内容和社区建立联系是贯穿三个数据收集阶段的一个突出主题。社交网络网站上的社交饮酒在就地避难所期间变得越来越突出，成为一种对抗孤独、无聊和应对 COVID-19 一般压力的方式。
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