Loneliness as a specific risk factor for depressive symptoms: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.

By John T. Cacioppo, M. E. Hughes, L. Waite, Louise C. Hawkley, R. Thisted. Psychology and Aging, 2006

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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Loneliness Matters: A Theoretical and Empirical Review of Consequences and Mechanisms (2010, positive): “The causal nature of the association between loneliness and depressive symptoms appears to be reciprocal [32], but more recent analyses of five consecutive annual assessments of loneliness and depressive symptoms have shown that loneliness predicts increases in depressive symptoms over 1-year interv”
Loneliness in the general population: prevalence, determinants and relations to mental health (2017, background): “Especially, the distinction of loneliness from depressive symptoms has been focused by Cacioppo and colleagues [17, 18].”
Social regulation of gene expression in human leukocytes (2007, methodology): “Global gene transcription profiles were assessed in circulating leukocytes from 14 individuals participating in the population-based Chicago Health Aging and Social Relations Study (CHASRS) [43].”
Strength and Vulnerability Integration (SAVI): A Model of Emotional Well-Being Across Adulthood (2010, positive): “Age differences become even more pronounced as situations increase in emotional salience (Blanchard-Fields, Jahnke, & Camp, 1995; Blanchard-Fields, Stein, & Watson, 2004; Watson & Blanchard-Fields, 1998).”
Loneliness and risk of Alzheimer disease. (2007, background): “Loneliness and depressive symptoms are separable on psychometric(50) and conceptual(42) grounds but are moderately correlated and appear to reciprocally influence one another with time.(42) We found that the loneliness item on the depression scale predicted AD risk better than the sum of the remaini”
Loneliness, social support networks, mood and wellbeing in community‐dwelling elderly (2009, background): “The lonely have an increased risk of depression (Cacioppo et al., 2006) and one study reported that the excess mortality in the elderly depressed was confined to those who were lonely (Stek et al.”
Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science (2020, background): “14,61,62 Therefore, loss of access to mental health support, alongside loss of positive activities, might increase vulnerability during COVID-19 lockdown.”