Loneliness in the daily lives of young adults: Testing a socio–cognitive model

E van Roekel, T Ha, RHJ Scholte… - European Journal …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
A socio–cognitive model of loneliness states that lonely people are characterized by two
characteristics, hypersensitivity to social threat and hyposensitivity to social reward …

Loneliness effects on personality

M Mund, FJ Neyer - International Journal of Behavioral …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Individuals feel lonely when they perceive a discrepancy between their desired and their
actually experienced quantity and quality of social relationships. Prior research has …

Threatened by others or by everything? The effects of momentary and trait loneliness on daily appraisals of social company and being alone in young adults

A Piejka, M Wiśniewska… - … Psychology: Health and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Theoretical accounts of loneliness suggest that it may lead to psychopathological
consequences by increasing the perception of social threat. However, it is unclear whether …

“When i feel lonely, i'm not nice (and neither are you)”: the short-and long-term relation between loneliness and reports of social behaviour

X Gong, J Nikitin - Cognition and Emotion, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Loneliness can negatively impact peoples' lives. However, it is unclear whether loneliness
influences, and is influenced by, people's social experience. Consistent with socio-cognitive …

Trajectories of loneliness and psychosocial functioning

E Hutten, EMM Jongen, P Verboon, AER Bos… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The present study examined the relationship between developmental patterns of loneliness
and psychosocial functioning among adolescents (9–21 years; N= 110, 52% male). Four …

Trait and state levels of loneliness in early and late adolescents: Examining the differential reactivity hypothesis

E van Roekel, M Verhagen, RCME Engels… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
According to the differential reactivity hypothesis, lonely individuals respond differently to
their environment compared to nonlonely individuals, which may sustain their loneliness …

Loneliness in the daily lives of adolescents: An experience sampling study examining the effects of social contexts

E van Roekel, RHJ Scholte… - The Journal of Early …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The main aim of the present study was to examine state levels of loneliness in adolescence.
Both concurrent associations and temporal dynamics between social contexts and state …

Loneliness as related to various personality and environmental measures: Research with the German adaptation of the UCLA Loneliness Scale

E Stephan, M Fäth, H Lamm - Social Behavior and Personality …, 1988 - ingentaconnect.com
Two hundred and forty-seven students at a large West German city university were
presented with the UCLA Loneliness Scale (a 20-item questionnaire; Russell, Peplau, & …

Loneliness and the Big Five personality traits: A meta–analysis

S Buecker, M Maes, JJA Denissen… - European Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This preregistered meta–analysis (k= 113, total n= 93 668) addressed how the Big Five
dimensions of personality (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism …

Big Five traits predict between-and within-person variation in loneliness

S Shrestha, K Sigdel, M Pokharel… - European Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Past research has linked individual differences in loneliness to Big Five personality traits.
However, experience sampling studies also show intrapersonal fluctuations in loneliness …