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“It’s a feeling of complete disconnection”: experiences of existential loneliness from youth to older adulthood

open access: yesBMC Psychology, 2023
Background Existential loneliness is a feeling which stems from a sense of fundamental separation from others and the world. Although commonly mentioned in the loneliness literature, there is relatively little empirical work on this construct, and ...
Phoebe E. McKenna-Plumley   +3 more
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Family influences on adolescent loneliness [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2023
Loneliness is one of the negative emotions that is often brought up in everyday life. Loneliness has a variety of negative effects and can lead to suicidal thoughts at best.
Ying Mingjun
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The Impact of Loneliness on Quality of Life and Patient Satisfaction Among Older, Sicker Adults

open access: yesGerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2015
Objective: This study estimated prevalence rates of loneliness, identified characteristics associated with loneliness, and estimated the impact of loneliness on quality of life (QOL) and patient satisfaction.
Shirley Musich PhD   +3 more
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The relationships between social support and loneliness: A meta-analysis and review

open access: yesActa 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, Shenghong Dong
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Impact of transient and chronic loneliness on progression and reversion of frailty in community-dwelling older adults: four-year follow-up

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Frailty is a common condition in older adults that is characterized by transitions between frailty states in both directions (progression and reversion) over time.
Bin-Lin Chu, Wen Zhang
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Loneliness as experienced by adolescents and young adults: an explorative qualitative study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 2022
Mental health problems among adolescents and young adults are increasing worldwide together with loneliness, which is considered a global public health problem.
Jessica Hemberg   +5 more
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To what extent does severity of loneliness vary among different mental health diagnostic groups: A cross-sectional study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Loneliness is a common and debilitating problem in individuals with mental health disorders. However, our knowledge on severity of loneliness in different mental health diagnostic groups and factors associated with loneliness is poor, thus limiting the ...
Alasmawi, K   +5 more
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Determining the Quality of Life, Social and Emotional Loneliness of Physically Disabled Individuals

open access: yesعلوم بهداشتی ایران, 2022
Background and purpose: This study aimed to examine the relationship between the life quality of physically disabled individuals and their social and emotional loneliness. Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional type of research in which "
Tuncay POLAT, Fevziye ÇETİNKAYA
doaj  

The phenotype of loneliness [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
Goossens' (in press) review nicely maps the progression of scientific research from its early focus on loneliness as a dysphoric state that results from the discrepancy between a person's ideal and actual social relationships to its current emphasis on the centrality of loneliness to our very nature as a social species, and he argues that developmental
Cacioppo John T., Cacioppo Stephanie
openaire   +3 more sources

Disability and loneliness in the United Kingdom: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of trends and transitions

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background Loneliness can have a detrimental impact on health, yet little is known about the association between disability and loneliness. Methods Secondary analysis of three waves of data collected between 2017 and 2020 by the UK’s annual household ...
Eric Emerson   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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