Loneliness and Health: Potential Mechanisms

By John T. Cacioppo, Louise C. Hawkley, L. E. Crawford, John M. Ernst, Mary H. Burleson, R. Kowalewski, W. B. Malarkey, E. Cauter, G. Berntson. Psychosomatic Medicine, 2002

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Health, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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Loneliness Matters: A Theoretical and Empirical Review of Consequences and Mechanisms (2010, neutral): “In our study of young adults, loneliness was associated with elevated levels of total peripheral resistance (TPR [49, 56]).”
A review and agenda for examining how technology-driven changes at work will impact workplace mental health and employee well-being (2020, background): “Feelings of loneliness are also a source of chronic stress, and associated with poorer sleep, dysphoria, depression and anxiety (Cacioppo et al., 2002; Campione, 2008).”
Behavioral science at the crossroads in public health: extending horizons, envisioning the future. (2006, background): “…of unemployment (Bartley, 1994), acute stress (Benschop et al., 1998; Goldberg et al., 1996), working conditions (Brunner, 1996), social isolation (Cacioppo et al., 2002), social connectedness (Cohen, Kaplan, & Manuck, 1994; Uchino, Cacioppo, & Kiecolt-Glaser, 1996), and chronic stress (Manuck et…”
Loneliness, Health, and Mortality in Old Age: A National Longitudinal Study (2012, neutral): “At the biological level, loneliness is associated with increased vascular resistance (Cacioppo et al., 2002; Hawkley, Berntson, Burleson, & Cacioppo, 2003), increased systolic blood pressure (SBP) (Hawkley, Thisted, Masi, & Cacioppo, 2010), increased hypothalamic pituitary adrenocortical activity…”
WHEN WE NEED A HUMAN: MOTIVATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF ANTHROPOMORPHISM (2008, background): “Being disconnected from other people is not only unpleasant and uncomfortable (Baumeister & Leary, 1995), but it is unhealthy as well (Cacioppo et al., 2002; House, Landis, & Umberson, 1988).”
Social Relationships and Health: A Flashpoint for Health Policy (2010, background): “…in social ties take an increasing toll over time on a host of health indicators including allostatic load (Seeman et al. 2002), blood pressure (Cacioppo et al. 2002), physical health (Umberson et al. 2006), and mortality risk (Berkman and Syme 1979). cOStS AnD BenefItS Of SOcIAl…”
Identifying Living Arrangements That Heighten Risk for Loneliness in Later Life (2011, background): “…that they are lacking salient aspects of social relationships (Hughes, Waite, Hawkley, & Cacioppo, 2004)—is a risk factor for a range of health problems, including depression, sleep dysfunction, cognitive decline, and mortality (Brummett et al., 2001; Cacioppo et al., 2002; Wilson et al., 2007).”
Social relationships and health. (2004, background): “, 2000), the quality and quantity of our social interactions (Kiecolt-Glaser & Newton, 2001), and our feelings of isolation and loneliness (Cacioppo et al., 2002) have all been identified as predictors of health and wellbeing.”
The Role of Healthcare Robots for Older People at Home: A Review (2014, background): “For older people living in the community loneliness has been linked to higher blood pressure, poor sleep, worse cognition over time [27,113,114], higher prevalence of dementia [115,116] and is an independent risk factor for depression [117,118].”
Social isolation, loneliness and health in old age: a scoping review (2017, background): “2002), poorer sleep quality (Cacioppo et al. 2002) and vital exhaustion (Eng et al.”
Loneliness and the health of older people (2008, background): “Loneliness is associated with hypertension, poor sleep and abnormal stress responses (Cacioppo et al., 2002a, 2002b; Steptoe et al., 2004).”
The Neuroendocrinology of Social Isolation (2014, background): “Further evidence for the effect of perceived isolation on nonconscious processes in humans comes from cross-sectional and longitudinal research showing that loneliness predicts more fragmented sleep (Cacioppo et al. 2002a, Kurina et al. 2011).”