Did the screens win? An autoregressive model linking leisure, relatedness and mental health

While it is well known that sport and exercise are beneficial for physiological and neurological functioning, leisure has received less attention as a means of mobilizing social networks and cultivating relatedness as factors protecting mental health. Using a sample of 8148 cases from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP), we built an autoregressive cross-lagged model to determine how offline and online leisure is related to perceptions of support...