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Recent growth in the number of adults surviving to advanced ages raises questions about the quality of life associated with increased longevity. Psychosocial factors have received relatively little attention in research on quality of life among the oldest-old. This study uses nationally representative data on older US adults to examine how social relationships, feelings of loneliness, and satis...

[n this article, we discuss how, over time, both the concept and the function of bibliographic citation change and correspond to Riesman’s three types of personal character. First in the tradition-directed period, titles come beforeauthors, since the writer is seerr as merely the instrument of authority, In the inner-directed period, a transition occurs, with the author’s name coming before the...

ABSTRACT Background: The consequences of co-occurring persistent loneliness and late life depression are yet unknown. The aim of this study was to get a deeper insight into the mental health consequences of loneliness in older persons with depressive symptoms and their perspectives of emotional distress by using a mixed-methods study design. Methods: Two hundred and forty nine community-dwellin...

The goal of the present study was to examine whether lonely individuals differ from nonlonely individuals in their overt visual attention to social cues. Previous studies showed that loneliness was related to biased post-attentive processing of social cues (e.g., negative interpretation bias), but research on whether lonely and nonlonely individuals also show differences in an earlier informati...

Both music and love are conspicuously absent from the public soundscapes of Hargeysa, Somaliland. But behind closed doors, people listen to songs. In doing so, these lonely sufferers hopefuls make sense various challenges. Using accounts a cross section Somalilanders, I show that solitary listening practices open into uniquely intimate transformative opportunities for dareen-wadaag (feeling sha...

In our six-nation comparative research project examining how women of colour activists in London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen and Madrid organise mobilise against austerity, the far right for migrants’ rights, we found experiencing intense feelings loneliness their work. Emotional turmoil activist spaces is to be expected since are mobilised action precisely because deeply felt emotions...

There is growing recognition that young adults of low socioeconomic status are among the loneliest in United Kingdom. However, there has been a dearth qualitative research exploring how they cope with their loneliness. Using novel free association technique, this study sought to explore (n = 48) London’s most deprived areas feeling lonely. A thematic analysis, informed by an inductive approach,...

Lonely individuals may decode social cues well but have difficulty putting such skills to use precisely when they need them--in social situations. In four studies, we examined whether lonely people choke under social pressure by asking participants to complete social sensitivity tasks framed as diagnostic of social skills or nonsocial skills. Across studies, lonely participants performed worse ...