Public health and epidemiologic research have established that social connectedness
promotes overall health. Yet there have been no recent reviews of findings from research …

Loneliness is an experience resulting from a perceived discrepancy between expected and
actual social relationships. Although this discrepancy is widely considered the “core …

Loneliness is understood as a subjective experience resulting from unmet social
relationship expectations. As most loneliness research has been conducted in higher …

Introduction Previous research indicates that social isolation, loneliness, physical
dysfunction and depressive symptoms are interrelated factors, little is known about the …

This study aims to evaluate the directionality of the association between loneliness and
cognitive performance in older adults, accounting for confounding factors. Data were from …

African American women with breast cancer generally rely on their spirituality to cope with
psychosocial issues encountered during survivorship. However, in order to mitigate the risk …

This study investigated whether loneliness would predict physical and mental health‐related
quality of life (HRQoL) over 9 months and examined whether medical adherence would …

Background Variations in suicide following the initial COVID-19 pandemic outbreak were
heterogeneous across space, over time, and across population subgroup. Whether suicide …

Social isolation and loneliness are both established risk factors for mortality, but it remains
unclear how these two conditions interact with each other. We used data from 3975 adults …

Objectives Loneliness has a long‐established link with depression; however, patterns of
loneliness, specifically transient (short‐term) and chronic loneliness (longer‐term), have …