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0000-0003-3082-7968
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University of Western Australia
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Publisher: Routledge
Date: 26-06-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-02-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 28-10-2022
DOI: 10.1093/SSJJ/JYAC022
Abstract: Singles—here understood as unmarried or never married in iduals—are a growing subset of the Japanese population that has not received discrete attention in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article addresses the ways in which the pandemic and its associated interventions—calls for social distancing, self-restraint, or the avoidance of the ‘3Cs’—affect singles’ (non)familial personal relationships and practices of intimacy (platonic and romantic), as well as perceptions of singlehood and ‘solo activities’ (sorokatsu). Based on exploratory analyses of data from an original cross-sectional online survey conducted in early 2021 (n = 4.000 unmarried residents of Japan aged 25–49 years), we show that while practices of intimacy are changing throughout the pandemic, the changes are less dramatic than we anticipated. In addition, changes are highly gendered and seem to support contemporary media and public discourse on how in iduals are managing COVID-life and its concomitant uncertainties. We see two diachronic developments: an increase in social isolation and distress on the one hand, and an increase in acceptance of being single and doing ‘solo activities’ on the other. Our findings contribute to an understanding of the ways that singlehood, marital status, and extra-familial relationships are shaped, and shape the experiences of this pandemic.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-07-2016
DOI: 10.1111/TAJA.12150
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 17-09-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2016
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-03-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-11-2021
Start Date: 2009
End Date: 2010
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2012
End Date: 2014
Funder: Australian Research Council
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