The growing problem of loneliness

Cacioppo, John T.; Cacioppo, Stephanie

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(18)30142-9

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“…This schema is associated with difficulties associated with sharing problems and struggles with others, leading to reduced interpersonal connection and emotional isolation. Recent research has highlighted the reciprocal relationship between interpersonal disconnection, emotional isolation, and EE, resulting in a growing problem of loneliness, which has increasingly been linked to a range of serious physical and emotional health problems (Cacioppo & Cacioppo, 2018;Cacioppo, Cacioppo, Capitanio, & Cole, 2015;Holt-Lunstad & Smith, 2016;Layden et al, 2017;Miller, 2011;Murthy, 2017).…”

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Burnout amongst clinical and counselling psychologist: The role of early maladaptive schemas and coping modes as vulnerability factors

Simpson

Simionato

Smout

et al. 2018

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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Psychologists are subject to multiple competing emotional demands that increase the risk of burnout. Research has demonstrated that burnout arises from both organizational and personal factors, including psychologists' personal beliefs and coping. Preliminary research indicates that early maladaptive schemas (EMS) are associated with high burnout, yet, to date, the role of EMS and associated coping responses (maladaptive coping modes [MCM]) in predicting high burnout amongst psychologists has not been investigated. Four hundred forty-three psychologists completed a self-report online questionnaire comprising the Maslach Burnout Inventory-emotional exhaustion scale (EE), Young Schema Questionnaire, and Schema Mode Inventory. The two most common EMS amongst psychologists were unrelenting standards and self-sacrifice. There was substantial indication of burnout, with 18.3% in the high range and 29.6% in the moderate range of EE. The most common MCM were detached protector and detached self-soother. Controlling for demographics and job demands, EMS accounted for an additional 18% variance in EE. MCM accounted for an additional 6% beyond the variance explained by demographics, job demands, and EMS. Practical recommendations are suggested to reduce psychologist burnout.

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Burnout amongst clinical and counselling psychologist: The role of early maladaptive schemas and coping modes as vulnerability factors

Simpson

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Smout

et al. 2018

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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“…While evidence indicates that loneliness has the potential to prime feelings of social threat (Cacioppo & Cacioppo, 2018a), it could also be the case that a lack of group identification (which we have shown to predict loneliness) may be the initial catalyst for these feelings. While evidence indicates that loneliness has the potential to prime feelings of social threat (Cacioppo & Cacioppo, 2018a), it could also be the case that a lack of group identification (which we have shown to predict loneliness) may be the initial catalyst for these feelings.…”

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Longitudinal associations between family identification, loneliness, depression, and sleep quality

Wakefield

Bowe

Këllezi

et al. 2019

British J Health Psychol

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Objectives. The prevalence of depression and loneliness is increasing in Western nations, and both have been shown to cause poor sleep quality, with evidence suggesting that loneliness also predicts depression. The Social Cure perspective can shed light on these relationships and thus informs the present study. Specifically, it was hypothesized that the extent of participants' identification with a significant social group, their family, would positively predict sleep quality and that this relationship would be mediated by loneliness and depression. Design. A two-lave longitudinal online survey was used.Methods. Participants completed an online survey at T1 (N = 387) and 1 year later at T2 (N = 122) assessing the extent to which they identified with their family. Their loneliness, depressive symptomology, and sleep quality/insomnia severity were also measured.Results. Consistent with predictions, cross-sectional and longitudinal serial mediation models indicated that family identification was a negative predictor of loneliness, which in turn was a positive predictor of depression, which predicted poor sleep quality/insomnia.Conclusions. This is the first Social Cure study to explore the mediated relationship between social identification and sleep quality. As well as advancing the Social Cure perspective, these results have implications for how health professionals understand, prevent, and treat sleep problems. Statement of contributionWhat is already known on this subject?The prevalence of depression and loneliness is increasing in Western nations, and both have been shown to cause poor sleep quality. Weak social networks have been shown to predict restless sleep over time, and that depressed mood mediates this relationship.What does this study add? Family identification negatively predicted poor sleep quality cross-sectionally. Depression and loneliness positively predicted poor sleep quality over time.Depression and loneliness mediated the family identification-sleep quality relationship over time.

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“…Study results support the expansion of assessment of loneliness in clinical oncology research and practice. Loneliness is receiving increasing attention as a public health problem in the context of the current age shift in the population . Given that the majority of cancers occur in older adults, continued study of loneliness and potentially modifiable factors related to loneliness in cancer patients is warranted.…”

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Loneliness as a mediator of the relationship of social cognitive variables with depressive symptoms and quality of life in lung cancer patients beginning treatment

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Objective Loneliness, or the discrepancy between perceived and desired level of social connectedness, is an understudied but important psychosocial factor in cancer patients. The current study investigated the relationship between loneliness, depressive symptoms, quality of life, and social cognitive variables (eg, stigma, social constraint, and cancer‐related negative social expectations), and explored loneliness as a mediator of the relationship between social cognitive variables and depressive symptoms and quality of life in lung cancer patients beginning treatment. Methods Patients within 3 months of beginning treatment for lung cancer completed measures of loneliness, depressive symptoms, quality of life, and social cognitive variables. Correlational, chi‐square, and hierarchical regression analyses evaluated relationships among variables. Bias‐corrected bootstrapping methods estimated the indirect effect and 95% confidence interval for mediation models. Results Participants (n = 105, M = 65.5 years, 55% female) endorsed low to moderate levels of loneliness. Greater loneliness was associated with greater depressive symptoms and worse quality of life (P's < .001), and loneliness explained unique variance in depressive symptoms (F = 10.18, P < .001, ΔR2 = .06, Total R2 = .35) and quality of life (F = 19.55, P < .001, ΔR2 = .05, Total R2 = .52) after controlling for significant covariates. Greater stigma, social constraint, and cancer‐related negative social expectations were associated with greater loneliness and depressive symptoms and worse quality of life (P's < .001). Loneliness partially mediated the relationship of social cognitive variables with depressive symptoms and quality of life. Conclusions Beyond its direct impact on clinically relevant outcomes, the experience of loneliness may be a mechanism by which social cognitive factors influence depressive symptoms and quality of life in lung cancer patients.

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The growing problem of loneliness

Cited by 599 publications

References 7 publications

Burnout amongst clinical and counselling psychologist: The role of early maladaptive schemas and coping modes as vulnerability factors

Burnout amongst clinical and counselling psychologist: The role of early maladaptive schemas and coping modes as vulnerability factors

Longitudinal associations between family identification, loneliness, depression, and sleep quality

Loneliness as a mediator of the relationship of social cognitive variables with depressive symptoms and quality of life in lung cancer patients beginning treatment

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