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- Emerging adults often find themselves living farther away from their siblings during the transition to adulthood.
- Engaging in diverse forms of digital leisure, like social media and gaming, can help maintain the quality of sibling relationships despite this distance.
- The study found that the more varied their digital leisure activities, the better the emotional and cognitive quality of their sibling relationships, especially for those living nearer.
Article Abstract
During the transition to adulthood, emerging adults may experience new geographic distance separating them from their siblings. Digital leisure is common among emerging adults and may serve as a tool for maintaining relationship quality across geographic distance. Using qualitative data, we created individual digital leisure diversity scores for four categories of digital leisure identified from a constructed taxonomy. The sample included 185 college-attending emerging adults ( = 20.1, 64.3% male). Analysis of variance indicated dyadic gender differences in social media and gaming. Digital leisure diversity was associated with greater levels of affective and cognitive sibling relationship quality, regardless of sibling dyad gender. The association between digital leisure diversity and cognitive relationship quality was significant for participants who lived closer to their sibling. During the transition to adulthood when new geographic separation is common, digital leisure shows potential as a compensatory activity that may help siblings maintain relationship quality.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8691740 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2021.1899778 | DOI Listing |
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