The same was true for the SPSQ sensory subscale, except when comparing people with and without jobs, where no significant difference was found. Compared to all other groups, people with secondary vocational schools showed the lowest SPS in the SPSQ total. In the SPSQ sensory subscale, there ...
Moreover, no consistent patterns of ritualized or instrumental use of the Internet were found when comparing the chronically lonely and the nonlonely groups. However, the hypothesis that chronically lonely persons will report less active ... L Leung - 《Asian Journal of Communication》 被引量: 51...
2015). However, the risk of being lonely is unequally distributed across countries, with the smallest share of lonely older people in Northern Europe (up to 6%) and the largest shares in Russia and Eastern Europe (10–34% in different age groups) (Yang and Victor 2011; Hansen and Slags...
Social connections are important to all age groups, but Rook focuses on older adults because they're frequently coping with the death of loved ones as well as increased physical limitations. "I was drawn to this field because a great deal of change occurs in people's social networks when the...
Ageing does not reduce people''s need to connect with family members, friends, and acquaintances, and neither does migration. For those older migrants living in a foreign land, connectedness with others plays a particularly important role in achieving a sense of belonging and sustaining their ...
"There's a misconception that as we age, we become more withdrawn and less sociable," said first author Ashwin Kotwal, MD, of the UCSF Division of Geriatrics and of the San Francisco VA Medical Center. "In fact, older people are more socially active than otherage groupsand frequently play...
These groups only partly overlapped, and 8.7% were simultaneously socially isolated, socially inactive and lonely. The mortality rate was 29.9% in people, ... RS Tilvis,P Routasalo,H Karppinen,... - 《European Geriatric Medicine》 被引量: 55发表: 2012年 Effects of stress on catecholamine ...
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4) the older woman who stares off too much 5) the immigrant who is too quiet for comfort 6) the two girls who wear black and who keep only to themselves. These untrusting notions surrounding the lonely person are everywhere in a contemporary culture that rewards people for telling everyone...
Social isolation impacts the health and well-being of all age groups across the world. According to the WHO, one in four old people experience social isolation. Among adolescents, between 5 and 15 percent experience loneliness, but the numbers are likely to be underestimations, said the organiza...