The relationships between social support and loneliness: A meta-analysis and review
Acta Psychologica, 2022 The loneliness of modern people is becoming more and more prominent, and has brought profoundly negative effects on mental health. Social support is an important predictor of loneliness.
Xing Zhang
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The dynamics of loneliness: A longitudinal exploration of transitions in Japan across the COVID-19 period, 2020-2024. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundConcerns about increased loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic have been widely reported. However, long-term trajectories of loneliness remain insufficiently described.ObjectiveTo examine annual trends and five-year transition patterns of ...
Jargalmaa Amarsanaa +3 more
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Loneliness Among the Elderly: a Mini Review [PDF]
Consortium Psychiatricum, 2022 Loneliness is understood as a painful negative emotion. Since its introduction into the psychiatric literature in 1959, the understanding of loneliness has improved considerably, and is now understood to be a distinct entity to such issues as social ...
Sandeep Grover
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Social loneliness, emotional loneliness and loneliness in love as predictors of life satisfaction in adolescents [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2023 The primary aim of our research was to examine the impact of social loneliness, emotional loneliness and loneliness in love on life satisfaction of young people, including the variables of gender, age and material status.
Numanović Almedina Š. +3 more
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Evidence for a shared genetic contribution to loneliness and borderline personality disorder
Translational Psychiatry, 2023 Loneliness, influenced by genetic and environmental factors such as childhood maltreatment, is one aspect of interpersonal dysfunction in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
Anna Schulze +22 more
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Estimation of loneliness in students with visual impairments [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2017 Background/Aim. Loneliness is becoming more frequent, especially in young people. Some authors believe that visual impairments increase the risk of loneliness. Empirical data on its manifestation in persons with visual impairments are contradictory.
Stanimirović Dragana V. +3 more
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WHY AND HOW TO TALK ABOUT LONELINESS
Journal of Social Intervention, 2020 This paper discusses why talking about loneliness is important, what topics should be talked about and offers points of attention for bringing up the topic of loneliness. There are three reasons why talking about loneliness is important.
Eric Schoenmakers
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Latent Transition Analysis indicates four relatively stable profiles of loneliness in New Zealand
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2022 Objective: We investigated the characteristics of loneliness by identifying distinct ‘profiles’ of loneliness and investigating transitions between those loneliness profiles over two years.
Matthew D. Hammond +3 more
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How the COVID-19 pandemic is focusing attention on loneliness and social isolation
Public Health Research & Practice, 2020 The effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic upon human health, economic activity and social engagement have been swift and far reaching.
Ben J Smith, Michelle H Lim
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BMC Geriatrics, 2022 Background Loneliness has become a significant public health concern for older people. However, little is known about the association of loneliness, loneliness literacy, and changes in loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic with mental well-being.
Hui-Chuan Hsu, Shiau-Fang Chao
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