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Societal- and community-level strategies to improve social connectedness among older adults

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
Matthew Lee Smith, Matthew Lee Smith, Matthew Lee Smith, Jillian Racoosin, Jillian Racoosin, Jillian Racoosin, Risa Wilkerson, Ronald Matthew Ivey, Louise Hawkley, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas K. M. Cudjoe   +12 more
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Nationwide longitudinal study reveals impact of both national restriction levels and genetic risk factors on loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic

Scientific Reports
The impact of social restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic on social isolation and loneliness has been widely debated, yet little attention has been given to identifying particularly vulnerable groups.
Liam Quinn, Maria Didriksen, Christian Erikstrup, Bitten Aagaard, Christina Mikkelsen, DBDS genetic consortium, Henrik Ullum, Janna Nissen, Jakob Thaning Bay, Khoa Manh Dinh, Mie Topholm Bruun, Sisse Rye Ostrowski, Thomas Werge, Andrew J. Schork, Ole Birger Pedersen, Lea Arregui Nordahl Christoffersen   +15 more
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Loneliness: A Cradle for God\u27s Living Word [PDF]

, 1994
Reviewed Book: Weigel, Arnold D. Loneliness: A Cradle for God\u27s Living Word.
Hutchison, Lynne
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Loneliness in schizophrenia: Just loneliness

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Abstract Loneliness is reported by the majority of people with schizophrenia (∼80%), yet the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying loneliness in this population are incompletely understood. Similar to the general population, loneliness in schizophrenia is associated with cognitive biases toward mistrusting others, as well as ...
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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Adolescent Loneliness, Self-Disclosure, and Private Self-Consciousness: A Longitudinal Investigation [PDF]

, 1986
Examined the causal relations that exist among loneliness, self-disclosure, and private self-consciousness, building on an earlier study by S. L. Franzoi and M. H. Davis (see record 1985-19892-001). Using structural equation techniques and a longitudinal
Davis, Mark H., Franzoi, Stephen L.
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Centrality in children's best friend networks: the role of social behaviour [PDF]

, 2014
Centrality is an indicator of an individual's relative importance within a social group. Predictors of centrality in best friendship networks were examined in 146 children (70 boys, 76 girls, Mage= 9.95). Children completed measures of social confidence,
Betts, LR, Stiller, J
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Relationship between qualitative and quantitative loneliness and suicidal ideation by occupational classification in the working-age population: a nationally-representative survey

BMC Public Health
Background Rising digitalization and individualism in the workplace after the COVID-19 pandemic have increased loneliness and related problems in the working-age population.
Jihye Heo, Jin Lee, Hyunjin Cho, Juhee Cho, Danbee Kang   +4 more
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