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 …

The relationship between state and trait loneliness and social experiences in daily life

J Mote, R Gonzalez, C Kircos, DE Gard, D Fulford - 2020 - osf.io
Loneliness, or the subjective experience of social disconnection, is often thought of as a
stable characteristic. However, emerging data suggest that experiences of loneliness …

“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 …

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 …

Feeling lonely when not socially isolated: Social isolation moderates the association between loneliness and daily social interaction

Y Lee, Y Ko - Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Although it is widely acknowledged that people can feel lonely when not socially isolated, to
our knowledge, no study has examined whether loneliness would be differently associated …

Predicting loneliness from where and what people do

KJ MacDonald, G Willemsen, DI Boomsma… - Social Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The many devastating mental health outcomes associated with chronic loneliness is the
motivation behind research into examining personal and demographic characteristics of the …

Why do the lonely stay lonely? Chronically lonely adolescents' attributions and emotions in situations of social inclusion and exclusion.

J Vanhalst, B Soenens, K Luyckx… - Journal of Personality …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
The goal of this study was to identify mechanisms associated with chronic loneliness by
examining the effect of adolescents' accumulated history of loneliness on responses to new …

Loneliness and social behaviours in a virtual social environment

M Luhmann, FD Schönbrodt, LC Hawkley… - Cognition and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Feeling lonely motivates people to reconnect with others, but it can also trigger a vicious
cycle of cognitions and behaviours that reinforces their loneliness. In this study, we …

The role of comparisons in judgments of loneliness

AJ Arnold, HB Kappes, E Klinenberg… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Loneliness—perceived social isolation—is defined as a discrepancy between existing social
relationships and desired quality of relationships. Whereas most research has focused on …

The double jeopardy of feeling lonely and unimportant: State and trait loneliness and feelings and fears of not mattering

SE McComb, JO Goldberg, GL Flett… - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
There have been recent concerns about an “epidemic of loneliness” during the pandemic,
given the pervasiveness of loneliness in the population and its harmful effects on health and …