Adolescence during a Pandemic: Examining US Adolescents’ Time Use and Family and Peer Relationships during COVID-19

Adolescents’ time use during COVID-19 offers insight into their lived experiences in unprecedented times. Using a person-centered approach, we describe profiles of and examine demographics, parent support, friend support as predictors use. Among 555 U.S. adolescents, identified three latent across 14 daily activities. Education-Focused youth were more likely to be gender non-binary, Latinx, or Asian, had higher parental education, lower support. High Media Users female LGBQ-identifying, Work-Focused older spent in-person with friends. Implications include strengthening relational supports, reconsidering the risks benefits different types this historical moment.