marriage and having a family is along with consequences for each person and it provides the ground for developing identity and stability in his life. however, the separation of couples leads to various problems. this issue is along with far more complicated problems for women. the objective of this study is the better understanding of motherhood experiences of divorced women on the custody of t...

BACKGROUND Loneliness is a common source of distress, suffering, and impaired quality of life in older persons. We examined the relationship between loneliness, functional decline, and death in adults older than 60 years in the United States. METHODS This is a longitudinal cohort study of 1604 participants in the psychosocial module of the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representat...

OMG, LOL, FOMO? it might sound like just another cutesy acronym, but anyone experiencing FOMO ? or, fear of missing out ? knows that it can feel like the opposite of laughing out loud (LOL). The acronym FOMO is relatively new on the emotional health scene and is closely tied to social media, but the concept is as old as time itself. It has to do with the perception that other people are having ...

OMG, LOL, FOMO? it might sound like just another cutesy acronym, but anyone experiencing FOMO ? or, fear of missing out ? knows that it can feel like the opposite of laughing out loud (LOL). The acronym FOMO is relatively new on the emotional health scene and is closely tied to social media, but the concept is as old as time itself. It has to do with the perception that other people are having ...

This interpretive study explored older people's understanding of loneliness and what they considered appropriate and effective ways of dealing with it. Thirty elderly people were interviewed in-depth; 12 described themselves as "lonely" and 18 as "not lonely." We found a striking difference in the way "lonely" and "not lonely" people talked about loneliness. The "not lonely" participants descri...

OMG, LOL, FOMO? it might sound like just another cutesy acronym, but anyone experiencing FOMO ? or, fear of missing out ? knows that it can feel like the opposite of laughing out loud (LOL). The acronym FOMO is relatively new on the emotional health scene and is closely tied to social media, but the concept is as old as time itself. It has to do with the perception that other people are having ...

PRE-HISTORY, 10 YEARS AGO Permit me as a tribal elder to exceed my bounds and think back to the state of scholarship in our field 10 years ago. Although Murray Turoff and Roxanne Hiltz had published their prophetic The Network Nation in 1978, it was pre-internet history then. As one of the first social scientists to be involved in internet research, I went to biannual gatherings of the then-tri...

OMG, LOL, FOMO? it might sound like just another cutesy acronym, but anyone experiencing FOMO ? or, fear of missing out ? knows that it can feel like the opposite of laughing out loud (LOL). The acronym FOMO is relatively new on the emotional health scene and is closely tied to social media, but the concept is as old as time itself. It has to do with the perception that other people are having ...