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Showing 1 to 20 of 413 for “"loneliness"”.
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Loneliness detection using technology
… decade, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, loneliness has emerged as a global issue. Although loneliness is a common issue that most people experience at some stage in their lives, it can have harmful effects on both physical and mental health if this condition becomes chronic. To avoid the …
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Overcoming loneliness: first-generation Slavic immigrants' experience with loneliness in the Inland Northwest
<p>The plight of loneliness has caused devastation to many social and cultural groups’ well-being. Scholars have analyzed and documented its adverse health such as suicide (Stravynski and Boyer 2001), Alzheimer’s disease (Wilson et al. 2007), depression (Erzen and Çikrikci 2018), immune system …
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Loneliness in the oldest old
… life has been explored over the past decades. Loneliness has been found to be an adversity associated with ageing. People who feel lonely are at greater risk of experiencing increased morbidity and mortality. However, the existing evidence on the determinants of loneliness as well as the …
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Architecture's Invisible Tie to Loneliness
… disconnection has made me to give it a name – Loneliness. One may reasonably hold the global pandemic accountable for this feeling. It can be true; the pandemic has forced a lot of us to spend all of our time at home, and be socially distant from other human beings. But surveys and studies …
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Loneliness, Creation and Communication in Carlos Rojas
… of his work are those elemental problems of man: loneliness and alienation, selfexamination, communication and creation. It is through an examination of these themes as explored by Rojas in his fiction and other writings, that the source of his artistic inspiration and style may be discovered. I …
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Loneliness among widowed persons in later life
This study was an investigation of loneliness among widowed elders using a model conceptually based on symbolic interaction theory. Symbolic interaction theorists contend that people are active, self-directing, and creative individuals who adjust to dramatic situational changes such as widowhood by …
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The Social Network and Attachment Bases of Loneliness
… thesis tests Robert S. Weiss's 1973 theory of loneliness, which claims two types of loneliness: emotional and social. Emotional loneliness is the affective reaction to the absence of a close attachment bond. Social loneliness stems from inadequate integration into a social network. …
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Loneliness and social support in shift work employees
Loneliness, a discrepancy between the desired quantity and quality of one’s relationships and their current relationships, has been connected to increases in mortality, as well as lower job performance, reduced job satisfaction, and increased burnout. However more recent studies indicate that the …
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An EEG Study on Loneliness and Recognition Memory
<p>Loneliness, the perception of unmet social needs, has been shown to relate to recollection-based recognition deficits, but the relationship between loneliness and recognition memory (i.e., recollection and familiarity) has not been thoroughly examined. The current study hypothesized that more …
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Factors Contributing to the Experience of State Loneliness
… the factors that contribute to the experience of loneliness in daily life (i.e., state loneliness). In the first study, I propose that being alone is most likely to lead to feelings of loneliness when a person is expected to be social, relative to moments when there is less of an expectation to be …
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Attachment, social support and loneliness in later life
… was to study attachment, social support and loneliness in older adults. Tasks were to discover if (a) adult attachment in later life would replicate patterns found in prior research, (b) a stagewise block regression model including attachment would predict loneliness, (c) attachment would …
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Loneliness and Hypervigilance to Social Threats in Adults
… hypervigilance to social threat hypothesis in loneliness using adult samples. The studies described in this thesis make an original contribution to the loneliness literature and uses different experimental paradigms to examine whether lonely adults are hypervigilant to social threats that are …
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Peer Relationship Processes and Children's Loneliness at School
… of multiple processes on an outcome such as loneliness. Suggestions are made for future research, including intervention research with children having peer relationship problems.
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Solving ANTS with loneliness detection and constant memory
… Specifically, the only communication is loneliness detection, in which an agent in able to sense whether it is the only agent located in its current cell. To solve this problem we present an algorithm HYBRID-SEARCH, which locates the treasure in O(D - log k + D² /k) steps in expectation. …
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Loneliness as a risk factor for mortality and morbidity
… over the past couple of decades have depicted loneliness as a significant concern to physical health, although its meaning for overall health outcomes is still unclear. The precise impact of loneliness on life expectancy and on specific disease processes remains unknown. With regression …
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Lonely reflections: Variations in adolescents' trait and state loneliness
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The Association Between Parent-Child Relationship and Child Loneliness
… of parent-child relationships in understanding loneliness during middle childhood. Twelve second to fourth grade children attending several elementary schools in a large western urban district were asked to complete the Loneliness and Social Dissatisfaction Questionnaire (LSDQ, Asher, Hymel & …
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