introduction: similar to social and conscious emotions, shame and guilt have gained increasing attention because of their eminent emotional, motivational, and cognitive functions that ultimately guide human beings' perception and behavior. the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between shame and guilt feelings with the dimensions of loneliness (familial, social, and romantic). met...

background loneliness is one of the psychological variables related to high risk behaviors that should be investigated more. objectives the current study aimed to assess emotional, social, romantic, and familial dimensions of loneliness in drug abuser and nondrug abuser individuals. patients and methods two hundred and twenty eight individuals were enrolled in this cross sectional study. hundre...

Social isolation and loneliness in humans have been associated with physical and psychological morbidity, as well as mortality. This study aimed to assess the etiology of individual differences in feelings of loneliness. The genetic architecture of loneliness was explored in an extended twin-family design including 8,683 twins, siblings and parents from 3,911 families. In addition, 917 spouses ...

BACKGROUND Loneliness is one of the psychological variables related to high risk behaviors that should be investigated more. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to assess emotional, social, romantic, and familial dimensions of loneliness in drug abuser and nondrug abuser individuals. PATIENTS AND METHODS Two hundred and twenty eight individuals were enrolled in this cross sectional study. Hu...

The objective of this study was to investigate whether the relationship between self-rated poor health and loneliness in late adulthood is moderated by strong and supportive familial ties. Using crosssectional data from a sample of 2000 individuals 60 years of age and older who reside in Arizona and Florida, moderation tests were conducted to determine whether two types of familial ties – spous...

This study examined factors that influenced loneliness among rural elders in China. Data were collected from the latest wave of Living and Employment of Population Survey in 2005 (provided by Renmin University, China). The sample of this survey consisted of 284 rural elders in China. T‐tests was used to examine the influence of gender, marital status, health, financial support, and living arran...

BACKGROUND Feelings of loneliness are common among young adults, and are hypothesized to impair the quality of sleep. In the present study, we tested associations between loneliness and sleep quality in a nationally representative sample of young adults. Further, based on the hypothesis that sleep problems in lonely individuals are driven by increased vigilance for threat, we tested whether pas...

Social support has been shown to have many positive effects on our lives, health, and ability grow flourish. Lack, or diminished social results in loneliness. This thematic review focuses the elderly, loneliness that is part of life them. The highlights connections expectations elderly may them, how being connected others alleviate, Loneliness known negatively affect one’s life, familial relati...

Abstract The main goal of this study was to investigate direct and indirect effects attachment parents on the formation friendships, satisfaction with friends, loneliness over transition college. Social anxiety gender were tested as a possible mediator moderator respectively. A total 210 college freshmen at large university in Spain participated baseline assessment six-month follow-up assessmen...