Loneliness and social isolation among young and late middle-age adults: Associations with personal networks and social participation

Child, Stephanie; Lawton, Leora

doi:10.1080/13607863.2017.1399345

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“…In a large scale study comprising 35,712 UK adults, younger adults were found particularly at risk of experiencing severe loneliness during the pandemic in comparison to the older age group (Bu et al, 2020). This result also lends support to earlier studies, which reported younger people to be signi cantly lonelier than older respondents (Barreto et al, 2020;Child & Lawton, 2019). A few possible explanations are offered here.…”

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Social and emotional loneliness among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the predictive role of coping behaviours, social support, and personal resilience

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Falguera

2020

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Background: The mandatory lockdown imposed by the government to curb the transmission of coronavirus disease or COVID-19 has significantly disrupted social activities among student nurses, making them vulnerable to loneliness and social isolation. Objective: To determine the relative influence of coping behaviours, personal resilience, and social support on student nurses’ emotional and social loneliness during the pandemic.Methods: A cross-sectional research design was utilised to gather data from 261 student nurses from the Central Philippines using the Loneliness Scale, the Brief Resilience Scale, the Coping Behaviour Questionnaire, and the Perceived Social Support Questionnaire through an online survey. Results: The majority or 89.27% (n = 233) of student nurses experienced moderate to severe levels of loneliness during the lockdown. Age (younger age) (β = -0.168, p = 0.005) and social support (β = -0.176, p = 0.014) predicted emotional resilience, while gender (being female) (β = 0.109, p = 0.045), personal resilience (β = -0.214, p < 0.001), and coping behaviours (β = -0.455, p < 0.001) predicted social loneliness.Conclusions: Loneliness among student nurses was high during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Personal resilience, coping behaviours, and social support were identified as protective factors against loneliness. Empirically tested interventions and strategies directed towards increasing personal resilience, social support, and coping behaviours may help decrease emotional and social loneliness caused by the mandatory lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Social and emotional loneliness among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the predictive role of coping behaviours, social support, and personal resilience

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2020

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“…The results of the current study demonstrated the relationship between loneliness and social capital. Speci cally, older people who lacked social capital concerning social participation, social connection, and reciprocity were more likely to experience loneliness, which was echoed by ndings from previous studies [10,20,25,41]. Similar to our results, Nyqvist et al [10] found that infrequent social connection with neighbours had an increased likelihood of being lonely among older people aged 65-80 years in Western Finland.…”

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Association between social capital and loneliness among older adults: A cross-sectional study in Anhui Province, China

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Background: We aimed to examine the association between social capital and loneliness in Anhui Province, China. Methods: Data were collected from a cross-sectional study using a multi-stage stratified cluster sampling strategy. Data on demographic characteristics, socioeconomic factors, social capital, and loneliness in 1810 older adults (aged 60 years and older) were used for analysis. Binary logistic regression models and a classification and regression tree model were performed to assess the association of social capital and loneliness. Results: Our results indicated that social capital in terms of lower level of social participation (AOR = 1.38; 95% CI: 1.10-1.74), social connection (AOR = 1.51; 95% CI: 1.18-1.93), and reciprocity (AOR = 1.47; 95% CI: 1.13-1.90) were associated with higher odds of developing loneliness. We noted the interactive effect of different social capital dimensions on loneliness, suggesting that the risk for suffering loneliness was greatest in older people limited in functional ability, with less trust, less social connection, and less social participation. Conclusions: Our findings show that social capital is associated with loneliness in older adults. This implies that social capital, especially in terms of trust, social connection, and social participation may be significant for alleviating loneliness in later life.

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“…The results demonstrated the relationship between loneliness and social capital. Speci cally, older people who had less social participation, social connection, and reciprocity were more likely to experience loneliness, which was echoed by ndings from previous studies [11,27,44,45]. In this study, social capital consisted of six dimensions [33,36].…”

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Association between social capital and loneliness among older adults: A cross-sectional study in Anhui Province, China

Bai

Wang

Shao

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Background Although the relationship between social capital and loneliness in later life has been widely researched in western countries, this evidence is largely lacking in China. We aimed to examine the association between social capital and experienced loneliness in Anhui Province, China. Methods Data were collected from a cross-sectional study using a multi-stage stratified cluster sampling strategy. Data on demographic characteristics, socioeconomic factors, social capital, and loneliness in 1810 older adults (aged 60 years and older) were used for analysis. Binary logistic regression models and a classification and regression tree model were performed. Results Our results indicated that social capital in terms of social participation (AOR = 1.38; 95% CI: 1.10–1.74), social connection (AOR = 1.51; 95% CI: 1.18–1.93), and reciprocity (AOR = 1.47; 95% CI: 1.13–1.90) were associated with loneliness. We noted the interactive effect of different social capital dimensions on loneliness, suggesting that the risk for suffering loneliness was greatest in older people limited in functional ability, with less trust, less social connection, and less social participation. Conclusions Our findings show that social capital is associated with loneliness in older adults. This implies that social capital, especially in terms of trust, social connection, and social participation may be significant for alleviating loneliness among older adults.

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Loneliness and social isolation among young and late middle-age adults: Associations with personal networks and social participation

Cited by 107 publications

References 51 publications

Social and emotional loneliness among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the predictive role of coping behaviours, social support, and personal resilience

Social and emotional loneliness among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the predictive role of coping behaviours, social support, and personal resilience

Association between social capital and loneliness among older adults: A cross-sectional study in Anhui Province, China

Association between social capital and loneliness among older adults: A cross-sectional study in Anhui Province, China

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