Developing and testing a model of loneliness.

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“…About 45% of these people indicated that their loneliness had persisted for 6 years or more. Studies with other samples and countries report comparable results (de Jong-Gierveld 1987;Jylha 2004;Tornstam 1988). Although hard statistics are absent, there is a common impression that people in modern societies are becoming even lonelier because of changing demographics, relationships, and lifestyles (Dykstra 2009;Griffin 2010;Myers 2000;Putnam 2000;Turkle 2011).…”

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“…The panel is representative of the general population in the Netherlands over 16 years old on key socioeconomic characteristics, such as gender, age, income, education, and relationship status. Prior research has shown a similar nomological net of loneliness in the country as elsewhere (Boomsma et al 2005;de Jong-Gierveld 1987). Funding enabled five measurement waves across 6 years, namely, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 for the present study.…”

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Bidirectional Dynamics of Materialism and Loneliness: Not Just a Vicious Cycle

2013

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This research is the first to test the hypothesis that consumers face a "material trap" in which materialism fosters social isolation which in turn reinforces materialism. It provides evidence that materialism and loneliness are engaged in bidirectional relationships over time. Importantly, it finds that loneliness contributes more to materialism than the other way around. Moreover, it finds that materialism's contribution to loneliness is not uniformly vicious but critically differs between specific subtypes of materialism. That is, valuing possessions as a happiness medicine or as a success measure increased loneliness, and these subtypes also increased most due to loneliness. Yet seeking possessions for material mirth decreased loneliness and was unaffected by it. These findings are based on longitudinal data from over 2,500 consumers across 6 years and a new latent growth model. They reveal how materialism and loneliness form a self-perpetuating vicious and virtuous cycle depending on the materialism subtype.

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Bidirectional Dynamics of Materialism and Loneliness: Not Just a Vicious Cycle

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“…Esta definición es heredera de una teoría formulada hace bastante tiempo por Perlman y Peplau (1981:31) en el ámbito de la psicología social, pero que continúa siendo muy aceptada por la comunidad científica internacional: la soledad es "una experiencia desagradable que ocurre cuando la red de relaciones sociales de una persona es deficiente en algún sentido importante, sea cuantitativa o cualitativamente", afirmaron. Dicha definición, por otro lado, incorpora elementos de la propuesta por De Jong Gierveld (1987), al concebir la soledad como un sentimiento que llegan a sufrir las personas al percibir una falta de relaciones sociales, insatisfactoria o inadmisible, bien porque su número es inferior al que desean o bien porque no aportan la intimidad esperada.…”

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El sentimiento de soledad en la vejez

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2018

Rev. int. sociol.

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ResumenNuestro objetivo es indagar sobre uno de los problemas sociales que más afectan a las personas mayores, el sentimiento de soledad, distinguiendo entre las dimensiones emocional y social. Utilizando una estrategia metodológica cualitativa, con el grupo de discusión como técnica de producción de información y la teoría fundamentada como técnica de análisis, investigamos acerca de cómo lo experimentan las personas mayores viudas que viven solas, que constituyen un grupo de población que lo sufre especialmente. Hemos constatado que padecen soledad emocional, sobre todo, quienes enviudan a edad avanzada, tras varias décadas de matrimonio. Es un sentimiento ligado al vacío conyugal, con la noche como marco de aparición más propenso. Además, enviudar conlleva el riesgo de sufrir soledad social, debido al distanciamiento relacional que suele producirse con las amistades matrimoniales. También hemos apreciado diferencias de género en la incidencia del sentimiento de soledad, con una especial fragilidad de los varones para combatirlo. PalabRas ClaveMetodología cualitativa; Soledad emocional; Soledad social; Vida en solitario; Viudedad. abstRaCtOur purpose is to look into one of the social problems affecting the most to older people, namely the feeling of loneliness. We intend to approach this problem differ-entiating its social and emotional dimensions. Through a qualitative methodological strategy -focus groups as procedure to raise data and Grounded Theory as ana-lytical perspective-we study how that feeling is expe-rienced among a profile of older persons particularly affected by loneliness: older widowed persons living alone. Our findings prove that these persons suffer from emotional loneliness, especially those who enter wid-owhood at a later age and after decades of marriage. This feeling is linked to the loss of their spouse and it is at night when it is more likely to emerge. Moreover, wid-owhood comes along with the risk of social loneliness because of the relational distancing from friends who used to be connected to the married couple. We have identified as well gender differences regarding the im-pact of loneliness, being men those who are especially frail to confront it.

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“…Loneliness is characterized across development as the perceived dissatisfaction with current social relationships (De Jong-Gierveld, 1987;Perlman & Peplau, 1981) and is marked by negative feelings, including sadness and pessimism (Cacioppo & Hawkley, 2005). It often develops under social circumstances where social connection needs are not met, including the ending of a relationship (Peplau & Perlman, 1979), the move to a new city or school (Perlman & Peplau, 1981), or during life transitions more generally (Young, 1982).…”

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Prospective associations between loneliness and emotional intelligence

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2015

Journal of Adolescence

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Loneliness has been linked cross-sectionally to emotional skill deficits (e.g., Zysberg, 2012), but missing from the literature is a longitudinal examination of these relationships. The present study fills that gap by examining the prospective relationships between loneliness and emotional functioning in young adolescents in England. One hundred and ninety-six adolescents aged 11-13 years (90 females) took part in the study and completed the youth version of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT-YV) and the peer-related subscale of the Loneliness and Aloneness Scale for Children and Adolescents (LACA) at two time points, which were 10 months apart. Prospective associations were obtained for male and female adolescents separately using cross-lagged statistical techniques. Our results showed prospective links between understanding and managing emotions and loneliness for both females and males. Perceiving and using emotions were prospectively linked to loneliness in males only. Possible explanations and directions for future research are discussed.

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Developing and testing a model of loneliness.

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Bidirectional Dynamics of Materialism and Loneliness: Not Just a Vicious Cycle

Bidirectional Dynamics of Materialism and Loneliness: Not Just a Vicious Cycle

El sentimiento de soledad en la vejez

Prospective associations between loneliness and emotional intelligence

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