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Loneliness Across the Life Span [PDF]

open access: yesPerspectives on Psychological Science, 2015
Most people have experienced loneliness and have been able to overcome it to reconnect with other people. In the current review, we provide a life-span perspective on one component of the evolutionary theory of loneliness—a component we refer to as the ...
Pamela Qualter   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Loneliness Among the Elderly: a Mini Review [PDF]

open access: yesConsortium 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
doaj   +1 more source

Social loneliness, emotional loneliness and loneliness in love as predictors of life satisfaction in adolescents [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik 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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Qualitative study of loneliness in a senior housing community: the importance of wisdom and other coping strategies. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
ObjectiveOlder adults are at a high risk for loneliness, which impacts their health, well-being, and longevity. While related to social isolation, loneliness is a distinct, internally experienced, distressing feeling. The present qualitative study sought
Chik, Lisa   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Evidence for a shared genetic contribution to loneliness and borderline personality disorder

open access: yesTranslational 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
doaj   +1 more source

Estimation of loneliness in students with visual impairments [PDF]

open access: yesVojnosanitetski 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
doaj   +1 more source

WHY AND HOW TO TALK ABOUT LONELINESS

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Latent Transition Analysis indicates four relatively stable profiles of loneliness in New Zealand

open access: yesAustralian 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
doaj   +1 more source

Loneliness, loneliness literacy, and change in loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic among older adults: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC 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
doaj   +1 more source

How the COVID-19 pandemic is focusing attention on loneliness and social isolation

open access: yesPublic 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
doaj   +1 more source

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