People feel lonely when their social needs are not met by the quantity and quality of their
social relationships. Most research has focused on individual-level predictors of loneliness …

Judged by the sheer amount of global media coverage, loneliness rates seem to be an
increasingly urgent societal concern. From the late 1970s onward, the life experiences of …

Individuals experience loneliness when they perceive a deficiency in the quality or quantity
of their social relationships. In the present meta-analysis, we compiled data from 75 …

Interactions with technology have been sha** human society since its beginning.
Recently, digitalization has pervaded all aspects of our lives and provided us with new ways …

Loneliness is gaining attention globally as a public health issue because elevated
loneliness increases one's risk for depression, compromised immunity, chronic illness, and …

Media portrayals of a loneliness “epidemic” are premised on an increase in the proportion of
people living alone and decreases in rates of civic engagement and religious affiliation over …

This article views adult development through the lens of daily life experiences and recent
historical changes in these experiences. In particular, it examines whether theories that …

Loneliness is a pervasive experience with adverse impacts on health and well-being.
Despite its significance, notable gaps impede a full understanding of how loneliness …

Little is known about historical shifts in subjective age (ie, how old individuals feel). Moving
beyond the very few time-lagged cross-sectional cohort comparisons, we examined …

Based on activity theory, this paper employed data from the 2013, 2015, and 2018 waves of
the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey, and adopted Hierarchical Linear …