Mapping existential loneliness: a scoping review on existential loneliness/isolation conceptualizations and operationalizations

M Gil Álvarez, G Haugan, H Larsson… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In the last decade, there has been a renewed interdisciplinary interest in the study of
existential loneliness (EL) or existential isolation (EI). However, to date, there is still no …

Do social media influencers influence the vaccination drive? An application of source credibility theory and uses and gratification theory

F Alam, M Tao, R Rastogi, A Mendiratta… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2024 - Elsevier
The role of social media influencers (SMIs) in promoting COVID-19 vaccination drives has
caught the attention of scholars and practitioners worldwide but remains understudied in …

Existential isolation and prolonged grief in bereaved people: The moderating role of culture

N Zhou, Y Zhao, KV Smith, C Killikelly… - Clinical Psychology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Existential isolation refers to an individual's awareness of the unbridgeable gulf
between oneself, other people and the world. This kind of isolation has been found to be …

When alienated from society, conspiracy theory belief gives meaning to life

T Schnell, R Viviani, C Lenz, H Krampe - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Background Conspiracy theory belief–explaining the ultimate causes of social and political
events with claims of secret conspiracies–is assumed to arise from a desire to make sense …

Existential dimensions of the lived experiences of transgender youths 13-16 years in a cisnormative Swedish context

K Tyni, M Wurm, AS Bratt - International Journal of Transgender …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth face existential challenges in
navigating their genders in a cisnormative world that often misrecognizes or denies them …

Not Drinking and Alone: Alcohol Use and Its Implications for Existential Isolation

T Oleskowicz, GC Yawger, EC Pinel - Journal of Social and Clinical …, 2023 - Guilford Press
Introduction: Research implicates social isolation as a risk factor for problematic alcohol use.
However, no known research examines the role that a specific type of social isolation …

Trapped and lost in transition-existential loneliness during adolescence described in retrospect by Swedish university students

T Garnow, EL Einberg, P Garmy… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Experiences of loneliness are common during adolescence and previous research has
shown these experiences to be related to physical and mental ill-being. However, there is …

Feeling too isolated to be vaccinated? The contributing role of subjective interpersonal isolation factors towards COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance

MS Galgali, PJ Helm, J Arndt - Social Science & Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective The present research examines how different forms of subjective isolation predict
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance with two online studies conducted in the US …

Parsing the existential isolation–outcome association into its within-and between-patient components in naturalistic psychotherapy.

AE Coyne, AN Gaines, CG DeFontes… - …, 2025 - psycnet.apa.org
Complementing the oft-studied construct of interpersonal isolation, research has
increasingly focused on existential isolation (EI), or the subjective feeling of separateness in …

Isolated but not necessarily lonely: An exploratory analysis of subjective isolation and conspiracist ideation.

MS Galgali, PJ Helm, J Arndt - Journal of Individual Differences, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous research points to social/affiliative needs as playing an important role in orienting
people towards conspiratorial thinking. Yet no research to date has compared the relative …