How social anxiety leads to problematic use of conversational AI: the roles of loneliness, rumination, and mind perception

B Hu, Y Mao, KJ Kim - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
The growing prevalence of conversational artificial intelligence (CAI), digital agents that talk
and respond socially to users, has increased the likelihood of over-dependency on this new …

Subjective vitality and loneliness explain how coronavirus anxiety increases rumination among college students

G Arslan, M Yıldırım, M Aytaç - Death studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We investigated the relationship between coronavirus anxiety and rumination with
subjective vitality and loneliness as mediators. The online sample included 356 Turkish …

Personality, cognition, and adaptability to the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations with loneliness, distress, and positive and negative mood states

A Besser, GL Flett, T Nepon, V Zeigler-Hill - International Journal of Mental …, 2020 - Springer
The current research examined personality and individual difference factors associated with
the perceived ability to adapt to the significant challenges accompanying the ongoing public …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on daily activities, cognitions, and stress in a lonely and distressed population: temporal dynamic network analysis

M Haucke, A Heinz, S Liu, S Heinzel - Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022 - jmir.org
Background The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdown measures impacted
mental health worldwide. However, the temporal dynamics of causal factors that modulate …

Association between bullying victimization and post-traumatic stress disorders among Chinese adolescents: a multiple mediation model

T Li, B Chen, Q Li, X Wu, Y Li, R Zhen - BMC psychiatry, 2023 - Springer
Background Research that focused on the mechanisms underlying the relation between
school bullying victimization and PTSD ignored the simultaneous effect of emotional and …

The buffering role of self-compassion in the Association between loneliness with depressive symptoms: A cross-sectional Survey Study among older adults living in …

P Gao, H Mosazadeh, N Nazari - … Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an ongoing geriatric health
emergency with a substantial increase in the prevalence of medical and mental health …

Assessment of an Epidemic Urgency: Psychometric Evidence for the UCLA Loneliness Scale

R Bottaro, GD Valenti, P Faraci - Psychology Research and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background In modern industrialized countries, loneliness has been declared an epidemic.
The present paper aimed to replicate previous findings about the dimensionality of the …

Cybervictimization and loneliness among Chinese college students: A moderated mediation model of rumination and online social support

J Fang, X Wang, Z Wen, J Huang - Children and youth services review, 2020 - Elsevier
Although cybervictimization has been shown to play an important role in loneliness, little is
known about mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this relationship. In the …

Forgive, Let Go, and Stay Well! The Relationship between Forgiveness and Physical and Mental Health in Women and Men: The Mediating Role of Self …

J Mróz, K Kaleta - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: The current study assessed forgiveness (positive forgiveness and reduced
unforgiveness), self-consciousness (rumination and reflection), and physical and mental …