Home alone together: Differential links between momentary contexts and real-time loneliness among older adults from Chicago during versus before the COVID-19 pandemic

Compernolle, Ellen; Finch, Laura E.; Hawkley, Louise C.; Cagney, Kate A

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114881

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“…Loneliness was impacted by a person’s physical context (e.g., location, time of day), interpersonal and personal context (e.g., relational factors, life events), and socio-political context (e.g., social norms and service provision). Studies using ecological momentary assessment corroborate this finding, indicating that momentary changes in physical context such as being alone are associated with loneliness (Compernolle et al, 2021 , Compernolle et al, 2022 ). Personal context was also pertinent, as loneliness was described in reference to life transitions such as bereavement, which appeared to be particularly impactful when they increased isolation, which has also been found in recent experimental research (Evans et al, 2022 ).…”

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Experiences of Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies

McKenna-Plumley

Turner

Yang

et al. 2023

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Purpose Loneliness is a fundamentally subjective experience that is common at various life stages. Studies have qualitatively explored loneliness, but a comprehensive overview is lacking. This research therefore provides a fine-grained review of studies on loneliness experiences across the lifespan. Methods A systematic review and thematic synthesis were performed on studies that qualitatively investigated experiences of loneliness in people of any age from non-clinical populations. Sensitivity analysis assessed the impact of lower-quality studies and specific age groups on the findings. Results Twenty-nine studies of 1,321 participants aged between 7 and 103 were included. Fifteen descriptive themes and three overarching analytical themes were developed: (1) Loneliness is both psychological and contextual, (2) Loneliness centres on feelings of meaningful connection and painful disconnection, and (3) Loneliness can exist in a general, pervasive sense or can relate to specific other people or relationship types. Some features were particularly pertinent to children, younger adults, and older adults, respectively. Conclusions Loneliness involves a primarily aversive psychological experience of perceived disconnection which is linked to physical, personal, and socio-political contexts and can be pervasive or relate to specific relationships or relationship types. An awareness of context, life stage, and personal experiences is essential to understand loneliness.

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confidence: 84%

Experiences of Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies

McKenna-Plumley

Turner

Yang

et al. 2023

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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“…Because EMAs are designed to capture real-time experiences, we excluded from analysis EMAs that took longer than 30 minutes to complete and those that a participant did not begin within 30 minutes of receiving the ping, following prior research (Hektner, Schmidt, and Csikszentmihalyi 2007; Shiffman, Stone, and Hufford 2008). These exclusion criteria, and additional analytic decisions regarding the validity of EMAs, followed previous studies using these data (Compernolle et al 2021, 2022). Missingness on any of these measures was not strongly correlated with loneliness, social accompaniment, sociodemographic, or time-varying measures.…”

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Personal Network Size and Social Accompaniment: Protective or Risk Factor for Momentary Loneliness, and for Whom?

Goldman

Compernolle

2023

Society and Mental Health

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Personal networks yield important health benefits for individuals, in part by providing more opportunities to be in the company of others throughout daily life. Social accompaniment is generally believed to protect against momentary feelings of loneliness, although this hypothesis remains understudied. We examine how personal network size shapes older adults’ experiences of momentary loneliness and whether this association varies by momentary social accompaniment. We use three waves of ecological momentary assessments (EMA; N = 12,359) and personal network data from 343 older adults in the Chicago Health and Activity Space in Real-Time study. Older adults with large personal networks experienced more intense momentary loneliness compared with those with smaller social networks when they were momentarily alone. This association was more pronounced among men. We discuss how research approaches that bridge global and momentary measures of social connectedness can reveal important nuances of our understanding of how interpersonal factors influence later-life well-being over time.

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Urban park use and self-reported physical, mental, and social health during the COVID-19 pandemic: An on-site survey in Beijing, China

Dong

Sun

Yang

et al. 2023

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

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Home alone together: Differential links between momentary contexts and real-time loneliness among older adults from Chicago during versus before the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Experiences of Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies

Experiences of Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies

Personal Network Size and Social Accompaniment: Protective or Risk Factor for Momentary Loneliness, and for Whom?

Urban park use and self-reported physical, mental, and social health during the COVID-19 pandemic: An on-site survey in Beijing, China

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