Loneliness Across the Life Span

By Pam Qualter, J. Vanhalst, Rebecca A. Harris, E. van Roekel, Gerine M. A. Lodder, M. Bangee, Marlies Maes, M. Verhagen. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2015

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Subfields: Health, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

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New Ways of Theorizing and Conducting Research in the Field of Loneliness and Social Isolation (2018, background): “Qualter et al. (2015) showed, in agreement with the evolutionary theory of loneliness, that people of all ages who are confronted with the aversive feelings of loneliness, are motivated to reconnect with others.”
No Employee an Island: Workplace Loneliness and Job Performance (2018, background): “However, one of the most robust findings in the loneliness literature (e.g., Cacioppo & Patrick, 2008; Heinrich & Gullone, 2006; Jones & Hebb, 2003; Qualter et al., 2015) is that when loneliness becomes a more established sentiment—that is, a valenced assessment and comprising feelings about a…”
Unravelling the antecedents of loneliness in the workplace (2020, background): “Others have focused on the affective element of the experience, with loneliness being defined as a negative transient emotion engendered by an individual’s subjective perception of social isolation (Qualter et al., 2015).”
Loneliness around the world: Age, gender, and cultural differences in loneliness (2021, background): “It is now clear that loneliness is driven by a range of mechanisms that are partly developmental and partly socio-cultural (de Jong Gierveld, Tilburg, & Dykstra, 2006; Qualter et al., 2015).”
Happy to help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actor (2018, neutral): “Future research should employ more representative community samples (perhaps focussing on social disorders; Qualter et al., 2015), in a wider variety of cultures.”
Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality (2015, background): “In any case, the metaanalytic data, taken together with evidence for detrimental influences across the life span (Qualter et al., 2015, this issue), suggest that future research (and possibly interventions) should expand beyond older adults.”
Age differences in loneliness from late adolescence to oldest old age. (2016, background): “Certain factors may matter more in youth than in old age, and vice versa, and other factors may operate similarly across age (Qualter et al., 2015).”