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Covid intimacies: Resilience and viral safety among LGBT and heterosexual people using dating apps in the COVID-19 era

Covid 亲密关系：在 COVID-19 时代使用约会应用程序的 LGBT 和异性恋者的适应力和病毒安全性

基本信息

批准号：
ES/W002426/1
负责人：
Brian Heaphy
金额：
$ 52.1万
依托单位：
University of Manchester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW002426%2F1
关键词：
Covid intimacies Resilience viral safety

项目摘要

This project examines lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans (LGBT) and heterosexual people's use of online dating apps to negotiate intimacy (i.e. emotional and/or physical closeness) during and after COVID-19 social distance and lockdowns. It focuses on how diverse sexual and gendered cultures of intimacy are facilitated or constrained by dating apps during and after COVID-19, the implications of the existing and new intimate practices associated with dating apps for supporting personal resilience (i.e. people's ability to cope with difficult situations, such as those associated with COVID-19 lockdowns and social distance) , and how they encourage or discourage intimacy that is safe from COVID-19 and similar viral infections. It will generate knowledge about how internet-based services can be harnessed to support people's social and emotional needs, as well as safer intimacies, during and after the implementation of social distance measures. The researchers will collaborate with service providers and community representatives throughout the project to identify virtual interventions as appropriate to diverse intimate cultures and to promote personal resilience and 'safer' intimacy in the context of social distance and heightened viral risk. The study will include an initial round of online workshops with an expert partner group to explore how they: view the intimate possibilities and risks associated with virtual dating during COVID-19; have developed support activities online; and responded to any increase to the level of service demand. The group will advise on the design, undertaking and analysis of the research, and will be composed by representatives from dating app businesses, service providers, community representatives and international research experts and scholars. The project will combine a nationwide online survey (n= 600 approx.) with in-depth online qualitative interviews (n=60). Closed survey questions will enable the gathering of demographic data and the deployment of the Adult Resilience Measure (ARM-R), as developed by Resilience Research Centre, Dalhousie University, to provide data on resilience. Open survey questions will generate data on self-perceptions of the implications of dating app use for countering or enhancing a sense of social isolation and intimate disconnectedness during the COVID-19 era, as well as the implications for negotiating viral risk. Virtual semi-structured interviews will generate data about diverse cultures and practices of intimacy pre- and post COVID-19; the possibilities and challenges presented by social distance for maintaining existing and developing new practices and cultures of intimacy; the virtual interactions involved in the negotiation of viral risk; and the ebb and flow of personal resilience as it links to dating app use over time. The interviews will generate data on LGBT and heterosexual experiences of using dating apps before, during and in transitioning out of social distance and lockdowns. The rationale for this focus is that the existing research suggests that lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, trans and heterosexuals have different cultures of intimacy, dating norms, online/offline practices of intimacy, and can have distinctive perceptions of viral risks (e.g. gay men are likely to be more informed about HIV) that influence their intimate practices online and are linked in multi-dimensional ways to their negotiation of risks offline. From the outset, the project will work with its expert partners group to determine what support services for intimate relations can be developed and/or transitioned to online service delivery during times of social distancing, with an emphasis of catering for diverse intimate cultures as they are shaped by gendered sexualities in interaction with socio-cultural positioning linked to geography, generation, racial and economic location.

这个项目调查了女同性恋者、男同性恋者、双性恋者、跨性别者和异性恋者在新冠肺炎社交距离和封锁期间和之后使用在线约会应用谈判亲密关系(即情感和/或身体上的亲密关系)的情况。它聚焦于约会应用在新冠肺炎期间和之后如何促进或抑制多样化的性别和性别亲密文化，与约会应用相关的现有和新的亲密做法对支持个人韧性(即人们应对困难情况的能力，例如与新冠肺炎被封锁和社交距离相关的能力)的影响，以及它们如何鼓励或阻止不受新冠肺炎和类似病毒感染的亲密关系。它将产生关于如何利用基于互联网的服务来支持人们的社会和情感需求以及在实施社会距离措施期间和之后更安全的亲密关系的知识。研究人员将在整个项目中与服务提供商和社区代表合作，确定适合不同亲密文化的虚拟干预措施，并在社会距离和病毒风险增加的背景下促进个人韧性和“更安全的”亲密关系。该研究将包括与一个专家合作伙伴小组举行的第一轮在线研讨会，以探索他们如何：看待新冠肺炎期间虚拟约会的亲密可能性和风险；制定在线支持活动；以及如何应对服务需求水平的任何提高。该小组将就研究的设计、实施和分析提供建议，并将由约会应用企业、服务提供商、社区代表和国际研究专家学者的代表组成。该项目将结合一项全国性的在线调查(约600项)。通过深入的在线定性访谈(n=60)。封闭式调查问题将有助于收集人口统计数据，并采用达尔豪西大学复原力研究中心开发的成人复原力测量(ARM-R)，以提供有关复原力的数据。公开调查问题将产生关于以下方面的数据：在新冠肺炎时代，约会应用的使用对抵消或增强社交孤立感和亲密脱节的影响，以及对谈判病毒风险的影响。虚拟半结构化访谈将产生关于新冠肺炎前后不同亲密文化和做法的数据；社交距离为维持现有和发展新的亲密做法和文化带来的可能性和挑战；病毒风险谈判中涉及的虚拟互动；以及随着时间的推移与约会应用程序使用相关的个人韧性的起伏。这些采访将产生有关LGBT和异性恋在离开社交距离和封锁之前、期间和过渡期间使用约会应用程序的数据。这种关注的理由是，现有的研究表明，女同性恋者、男同性恋者、双性恋者、跨性恋者和异性恋者具有不同的亲密文化、约会规范、线上/线下的亲密行为，并且可能对病毒风险有不同的看法(例如，男同性恋者可能更了解艾滋病毒)，这些风险影响了他们在网上的亲密行为，并以多方面的方式与他们线下的风险谈判联系在一起。从一开始，该项目将与其专家合作伙伴小组合作，确定在社会疏远时期可以开发和/或过渡到在线服务提供哪些亲密关系支助服务，重点是迎合不同的亲密文化，因为这些文化是由性别性别塑造的，并与地理、世代、种族和经济位置有关的社会文化定位相互作用。