Spiekerman Allie M, Guo Yue, Payton Jessica, Campione-Barr Nicole, Killoren Sarah E, Rote Wendy M, Rose Amanda J
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA.
Children (Basel). 2023 Jul 26;10(8):1281. doi: 10.3390/children10081281.
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent stay-at-home orders limited adolescents' ability to connect with friends in person, leading adolescents to rely on digital forms of communication to interact with friends. The present study ( = 168 adolescents ages 11-20, 51.40% female) examined the types of digital communication adolescents used to connect with friends during the pandemic stay-at-home orders and how each form of digital communication related to adolescents' emotional adjustment. The results showed texting to be the most common way adolescents connected with friends. Boys were more likely than girls to talk with friends through social gaming. Synchronous forms of communication (i.e., texting, video calls, and social gaming) were associated with reduced loneliness and depressive symptoms and higher flourishing. Connecting with friends by posting or responding on social media was not associated with adolescent well-being. These results suggest that forms of digital communication that allowed adolescents to talk with friends in real time were particularly important for adolescents' emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
新冠疫情及随后的居家令限制了青少年与朋友进行面对面交流的能力，导致青少年依赖数字通信形式与朋友互动。本研究（N = 168名11至20岁的青少年，51.40%为女性）调查了在疫情居家令期间青少年用于与朋友联系的数字通信类型，以及每种数字通信形式与青少年情绪调适的关系。结果显示，发短信是青少年与朋友联系最常用的方式。男孩比女孩更有可能通过社交游戏与朋友交谈。同步通信形式（即发短信、视频通话和社交游戏）与孤独感和抑郁症状减轻以及更高的幸福感相关。通过在社交媒体上发布或回复来与朋友联系与青少年的幸福感无关。这些结果表明，在新冠疫情期间，能让青少年实时与朋友交谈的数字通信形式对青少年的情绪健康尤为重要。
