Loneliness is a frequently reported problem for young people aged 16 to 24 years old. A variety of interventions have been developed (but in most cases not extensively evaluated) to try and tackle loneliness in this age group. These include interpersonal
Table 2 gives the descriptive statistics for the continuous and score variables, and Table 3 provides the statistics for the categorical and ordinal variables. The dataset is 44% male. Many more men were in a cohabiting relationship (76.0% compared to 60.3%), whilst many more women had experie...
similarly to older adults in the general population. Older adults with HIV, however, are challenged by unique psychosocial circumstances that place them at greater risk for loneliness and social
more reliant on partners/spouses and/or alcohol to tackle it, and that this may be a result of poorer social relationships. Ageing is often associated with loneliness, and research has indicated gendered results in older people, but existing evidence lacks generalisability and...
In the digital age, the Internet has become integrated into all aspects of people’s work, study, entertainment, and other activities, leading to a dramatic increase in the frequency of Internet use. However, excessive Internet use has negative effects o
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Data for this study are taken from the nationally representative Malaysian Population and Family Survey (MPFS-4), conducted in 2004 by the National Population and Family Development Board (LPPKN) of Malaysia, with technical assistance from the Department of Statistics Malaysia. The MPFS-4 sample wa...
Data were analysed using IBM SPSS Statistics 25. To assess selective attrition chi-square tests were used to check for differences in demographic categories between the participants completing each time point. The assumptions of regression analysis were checked. For each of the SDQ subscales (emotiona...
(2021). Review: Alleviating Loneliness in Young People – A Meta-Analysis of Interventions. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 26(1), 17–33. https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12389 Eid, E., Fekih-Romdhane, F., El Dine, A. S., Malaeb, D., Hallit, S., & Obeid, S. (2023). Does...
The descriptive statistics for the estimated durations (in hours per week) of service-specific and overall Internet use are presented in Table 2. As can be seen, the whole sample reported a mean duration of almost 35 hours of overall Internet use per week. Approximately 60% of this time (...