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 …

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

Social isolation and loneliness among older people Page 1 ADVOCACY BRIEF: Social
isolation and loneliness among older people Page 2 Acknowledgements The development 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 …

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 …

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 …

Human functioning and development are shaped by sociocultural contexts and by the
historical changes that occur in these contexts. Over the last century, sociocultural changes …

Ample evidence indicates that loneliness in old age is associated with poor bodily and
mental health. However, little is known about structural cerebral correlates of loneliness in …

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 …