Safe but lonely? Loneliness, anxiety, and depression symptoms and COVID-19

Ł Okruszek, A Aniszewska-Stańczuk, A Piejka… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has led governments worldwide to implement
unprecedented response strategies. While crucial to limiting the spread of the virus,“social …

A longitudinal study on the emotional impact cause by the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine on general population

L Canet-Juric, ML Andrés, M Del Valle… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 pandemic represents, not only a public physical health emergency, but a mental
health serious problem as well. However, little is known about the psychological impact of …

Mental well-being (depression, loneliness, insomnia, daily life fatigue) during COVID-19 related home-confinement—A study from Poland

A Bartoszek, D Walkowiak, A Bartoszek… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic is a great threat to both physical and mental health as it may lead
to psychological stress connected with an economic crisis, threat of unemployment, or fear of …

Social networks and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic

B Kovacs, N Caplan, S Grob, M King - Socius, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
We utilize longitudinal social network data collected pre–COVID-19 in June 2019 and
compare them with data collected in the midst of COVID in June 2020. We find significant …

Loneliness and mental health among the elderly in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic

B Dziedzic, A Idzik, E Kobos, Z Sienkiewicz, T Kryczka… - BMC public health, 2021 - Springer
Background The unexpected changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic related to the fear
of developing the disease, and the need for social distancing and isolation have had an …

The bright, the dark, and the blue face of narcissism: the spectrum of narcissism in its relations to the metatraits of personality, self-esteem, and the nomological …

R Rogoza, M Żemojtel-Piotrowska… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Grandiose and vulnerable narcissism seem to be uncorrelated in empirical studies, yet they
share at least some theoretical similarities. In the current study, we examine the relation …

How universal is a construct of loneliness? Measurement invariance of the UCLA loneliness scale in Indonesia, Germany, and the United States

J Hudiyana, TM Lincoln, S Hartanto… - …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-20) and its short version (ULS-8) are widely used to
measure loneliness. However, the question remains whether or not previous studies using …

Trait mindfulness and problematic smartphone use in chinese early adolescent: the multiple mediating roles of negative affectivity and fear of missing out

Y Jin, W Xiong, X Liu, J An - Behavioral Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study used a cross-sectional study design to investigate whether the mindfulness trait
was a protective factor against problematic smartphone use (PSPU) of early adolescents …

Owner of a lonely mind? Social cognitive capacity is associated with objective, but not perceived social isolation in healthy individuals

A Piejka, M Krawczyk, A Schudy, M Wiśniewska… - Journal of research in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction Both objective social isolation (OSI) and subjective feelings of loneliness
(perceived social isolation; PSI) are linked to cognitive problems in the general community …

A solution for factorial validity testing of three-item scales: An example of tau-equivalent strict measurement invariance of three-item loneliness scale

SK Czerwiński, PA Atroszko - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Ultra-short scales are increasingly popular in surveys. Congeneric model fit of a three-item
scale cannot be tested with Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) without additional …