"-Student Experiences of Maintaining Friendships During COVID-19 Lockdown: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study.

COVID-19 lockdown presented a novel opportunity to study the experiences of people attempting to maintain friendships in the context of worldwide, government-enforced physical distancing and lockdown. Here we report on an experiential, idiographic qualitative project with a purposive sample of Scottish students. Data was collected one-to-one on-line interviews with nine student participants ( = 9).