Risk factors for loneliness in adulthood and old age--a meta-analysis.

By M. Pinquart, S. Sörensen. 2003

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A Short Scale for Measuring Loneliness in Large Surveys (2004, background): “…reasoning, loneliness has a one-year test-retest reliability of .73 (unpublished conference presentation by Russell, Kao, and Cutrona 1987, cited in Shaver and Brennan 1991), and levels of loneliness increase little across the adult life span until above the age of 80 (Pinquart and Sorensen 2003).”
Age differences in loneliness from late adolescence to oldest old age. (2016, background): “As noted above, previous studies suggest that the age distribution of loneliness is U-shaped with elevated levels in both early and late adulthood and relatively lower levels during midadulthood (for reviews, see Pinquart & Sörensen, 2003; Qualter et al., 2015).”
Loneliness Predicts Reduced Physical Activity: Cross-Sectional & Longitudinal Analyses (2009, background): “Prior research indicates that aging and the development of chronic health conditions, as well as the exacerbation of previously existing conditions lead to greater feelings of loneliness (Pinquart & Sörensen, 2003).”
Social Relationships and Health: The Toxic Effects of Perceived Social Isolation. (2014, background): “Lower levels of loneliness are associated with marriage (Hawkley, Browne, & Cacioppo, 2005; Pinquart & Sőrensen, 2003), higher education (Savikko, Routasalo, Tilvis, Strandberg, & Pitkala, 2005), and higher income (Andersson, 1998; Savikko et al., 2005); whereas higher levels of loneliness are…”
Perceived Social Isolation Makes Me Sad: Five Year Cross-Lagged Analyses of Loneliness and Depressive Symptomatology in the Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study (2010, background): “Demographic covariates included because of their known associations with depressive symptoms or loneliness were age at study outset, gender, years of education, and marital status (Pinquart & Sorenson, 2003), as well as race/ethnicity (George & Lynch, 2003).”
Loneliness Predicts Increased Blood Pressure: Five-Year Cross-Lagged Analyses in Middle-Aged and Older Adults (2010, background): “Number of relationships can be important, but perceived shortcomings in the quality of one’s relationships are particularly closely linked to loneliness (Hawkley et al., 2008; Peplau & Perlman, 1982; Pinquart & Sörensen, 2003).”
Loneliness, Health, and Mortality in Old Age: A National Longitudinal Study (2012, unknown): “Possessing a richness of social attachments and friends protects against mortality (House et al., 1988), and generally signifies lower levels of loneliness (Hawkley et al., 2008; Pinquart & Sorenson, 2003).”
From Social Structural Factors to Perceptions of Relationship Quality and Loneliness: The Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study (2008, methodology): “Extending prior research (Pinquart & Sörensen, 2003), we found that being married was negatively associated with loneliness, but only if the marital partner served as a confidant.”
Causal beliefs, social participation, and loneliness among older adults: A longitudinal study (2009, methodology): “Consistent with past research, suggesting that 20–40% percent of older adults report occasional or moderate loneliness (Pinquart & Sorensen, 2001; Wenger & Burholt, 2004), our study found that, based on the single-item self-reported loneliness measure, about 33% of participants described themselves…”