Toward a Social Psychology of Loneliness

By D. Perlman, L. A. Peplau. 2008

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Adolescent loneliness and social anxiety (2016, background): “…loneliness is defined as the aversive experience that results when an individual’s social network is ‘‘quantitatively or qualitatively deficient’’ (Perlman & Peplau, 1981, p. 31), whereas social anxiety symptoms are defined as a continuum of feelings that range from worry to intense fear…”
Gender Differences in Loneliness across the Lifespan: A Meta–Analysis (2016, background): “Key words: loneliness; gender differences; lifespan; meta-analysis Loneliness is defined as the unpleasant feeling that occurs when people perceive their network of social relationships to be deficient in quantitative or qualitative ways (Perlman & Peplau, 1981).”
Loneliness, Gender, and Parasocial Interaction: A Uses and Gratifications Approach (2008, background): “Perlman and Peplau (1981) define loneliness as the disturbing experience that occurs when a person feels that his or her network of social relations does not fulfill the person’s needs in important ways.”
New Ways of Theorizing and Conducting Research in the Field of Loneliness and Social Isolation (2018, background): “Loneliness is “the unpleasant experience that occurs when a person’s network of social relations is deficient in some important way, either quantitatively or qualitatively” (Perlman & Peplau, 1981, p. 31).”
Loneliness and physical activity: A systematic review (2016, background): “As Perlman and Peplau (1981) stated decades ago, certain behaviors can be both an influencing factor on loneliness and a consequence of loneliness – physical activity seems to be one of them.”
Older adult loneliness: myths and realities (2009, background): “An often-used definition of loneliness is that it involves an unwanted discrepancy between the relationships one has and the ones one would like to have (Perlman and Peplau 1981).”
Unravelling the antecedents of loneliness in the workplace (2020, methodology): “This model builds on previous social psychological research by Perlman and Peplau (1981, 1984) and Wright’s (2005) model on workplace loneliness, and explores the notion that what might appear to be a quintessential individualistic experience – workplace loneliness – is not only a function of the…”
Social-Emotional Loneliness and Life Satisfaction (2011, background): “According to the Previous studies lonely individuals have generally negative view of themselves and the world(Perlman & Peplau, 1981); So that these negative subjective evaluations of these people from life lead to life dissatisfaction.”
No Employee an Island: Workplace Loneliness and Job Performance (2018, background): “…interactions, whereby greater loneliness causes more intrapsychic negative attributions about others, which prompt awkward or negative behaviors that actually breed less affiliation (Masi et al., 2011), which in turn gets reciprocated in kind (Mehrabian & Ksionzky, 1974; Perlman & Peplau, 1981).”
Different sources of loneliness are associated with different forms of psychopathology in adolescence (2011, background): “Loneliness is a negative emotion that comes about through a discrepancy between desired and achieved levels of social contact (Perlman & Peplau, 1981) and has been associated with psychopathology (Heinrich & Gullone, 2006).”
Social media and loneliness: Why an Instagram picture may be worth more than a thousand Twitter words (2016, background): “Loneliness is often defined in terms of one's connectedness to others, or more specifically as “the unpleasant experience that occurs when a person's network of social relations is deficient in some important way” (Perlman & Peplau, 1981, p. 31).”
Social and Emotional Loneliness Among Divorced and Married Men and Women: Comparing the Deficit and Cognitive Perspectives (2007, background): “Conceptualizations of loneliness (de Jong Gierveld, 1998; Fees, Martin, & Poon, 1999; Marangoni & Ickes, 1989; Margulis, Derlega, & Winstead, 1984; Perlman & Peplau, 1981; Rook, 1989) all agree that loneliness is the feeling people have that they lack personal relationships.”
Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for coronary heart disease and stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal observational studies (2016, background): “13 Measures of social isolation had to be consistent with its de ﬁ nition as a more objective measure of the absence of relationships, ties or contact with others.”
Loneliness and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study Among Dutch Older Adults (2020, unknown): “Perlman and Peplau (1981) defined loneliness as an unpleasant experience with a deficiency in a person’s social relations.”
Linking core self-evaluation and emotional exhaustion with workplace loneliness: does high LMX make the consequence worse? (2019, background): “It defines loneliness as the discrepancy between perceived and desired social relationships (Perlman & Peplau, 1981).”
The older, the lonelier? Risk factors for social loneliness in old age (2010, background): “In this cognitive view, loneliness arises when actual social relationships do not match those that are desired (Perlman and Peplau 1981; de Jong-Gierveld, van Tilburg and Dykstra 2006).”
Loneliness among older European adults: results from the survey of health, aging and retirement in Europe (2018, background): “…of social resources, pertaining to interpersonal relations, connectedness, companionship and support (van Baarsen et al. 2001), and thus perceives a discrepancy between the desired amount of social relationships and contacts and the ones they have managed to obtain (Perlman and Peplau 1981).”