Noreena Hertz, The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That’s Pulling Apart

Behr, Rachael

doi:10.1007/s11138-021-00553-w

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“…Thus, loneliness is not only about how individuals connect with other individuals, but how individuals connect with valued groups. Consequently, even when a person has satisfying personal connections with other individuals, loneliness may still arise if a person feels socially disconnected from their workplace colleagues or even their fellow countrymen (Hertz, 2021).…”

Section: The Psychology Of Lonelinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The trend of increasing loneliness, or at least currently high levels of loneliness, is particularly acute in younger individuals. Hertz (2021) notes that 20% of millennials report having no friends at all, and in some surveys, over 50% of children, adolescents, and very young adults report feeling lonely sometimes or often (cf. Ballard, 2019; Murphy, 2010).…”

Section: The Psychology Of Lonelinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Just like with most negative feelings, people get over it. The bad news, however, is that a sizeable percentage of people do feel lonely often and do not get over it, and the number of individuals for whom loneliness becomes a chronic state is both sizeable and growing (Hertz, 2021). Consequently, loneliness appears responsible for a growing percentage of the mental and health problems just noted, to the point that some have equated the effects of chronic loneliness with health risks such as high blood pressure, obesity, and cigarette smoking (House et al, 1988).…”

Section: An Agenda For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This may raise the question of levels of analysis: Are the rise of loneliness and its increasingly detrimental effects individual problems or ones that are more structural, arising from changes at the societal level? As Hertz (2021) makes clear in her book The Lonely Century , this is not a new question. Technological advances that have made it easier to move around have increased residential mobility but have also decreased close social connections and increased loneliness (Oishi & Tsang, 2022).…”

Section: An Agenda For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Feelings of loneliness appear to be increasing among younger adolescents as well (Twenge et al, 2019). Studies conducted during the pandemic find that loneliness increased across the board, from elderly individuals who are being told to self‐isolate (Armitage & Nellums, 2020), to parents of young children who have been unable to see their extended families (Coughlan, 2020), to adolescents who are being deprived of their social lives (Fumagalli, Dolmatzian, et al, 2021; Hertz, 2021). Countries are also reacting to the perceived loneliness epidemic, with both Britain and Japan naming a Minister of Loneliness to address the problem, and other initiatives that address feelings of loneliness have been developed around the world.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Humans are remarkably social beings who are highly motivated to establish significant interpersonal relationships. Baumeister and Leary (1995) posit that the need to belong is a fundamental human need that developed evolutionarily to increase the likelihood of survival. The establishment of social groups provided advantages in securing food, providing protection against outside threats, and increasing reproductive opportunities (Heinrich & Gullone, 2006), and thus the general motivation to establish social connections became a selectedfor trait that propagated psychological mechanisms that favored positive social contact and disfavored social isolation. Thus, over time, the need for developing satisfying social connections became psychologically embedded (Leary, 2015), and fundamental belongingness needs form the basis of several early psychological theories of human development that focus on the relation between establishing meaningful social relationships and the development of self-identity (Bowlby, 1969;Erikson, 1993;Heinrich & Gullone, 2006;Rokach, 1989). However, despite the strong (wired-in) motivation to establish social connections, sometimes people feel a disconnect between their desired level of social connection and what they perceive their current level to be. In other words, they perceive that their belongingness needs are not being met, and this discrepancy between desired and currently perceived feelings of belongingness results in feelings of loneliness.The feeling of loneliness-like any threat to fundamental human needs-is an aversive state from which people are highly motivated to escape (Baumeister & Leary, 1995;Perlman & Peplau, 1981;Rucker & Cannon, 2019). Often this is not problematic; after all, almost everyone experiences feelings of loneliness from time to time Rotenberg, 1999), and these feelings of loneliness are usually easily remedied by establishing new social connections or re-establishing old ones. However, at least two interrelated aspects of loneliness make it very problematic. The first is that although most people are successful at alleviating momentary feelings

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Section: The Psychology Of Lonelinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Psychology Of Lonelinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: An Agenda For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: An Agenda For Future Researchmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Loneliness is prevalent among iGeneration adolescents who fail to develop close friendships. The present review proposes a proactive approach, advocating that adolescents should be supported in their development of close friendships, as part of social-emotional learning (SEL). As research has found self-disclosure to be an important skill for developing close friendships, adolescents should be guided in this skill. Such guidance is the domain of school counselors and psychologists who could use the organized thinking framework on self-disclosure and the six counseling methods detailed and demonstrated here to support adolescents in this task.

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Noreena Hertz, The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That’s Pulling Apart

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Coping with loneliness through consumption

Coping with loneliness through consumption

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