Social Isolation and Health, with an Emphasis on Underlying Mechanisms

By John T. Cacioppo, Louise C. Hawkley. Perspectives in biology and medicine, 2003

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Subfields: Health, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

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Cyberbullying, self-esteem, empathy and loneliness (2015, background): “In particular, loneliness which peaks during adolescence (Brennan, 1982) and is conceptualized as perceived social isolation rather than physical separation (Cacioppo & Hawkley, 2003), may impact on the propensity to perpetrate or be the target of cyberbullying.”
Social regulation of gene expression in human leukocytes (2007, methodology): “There is controversy in the social epidemiology literature about whether the health risks of social isolation stem mainly from an objective lack of social contact (for example, diminishing physical, cognitive, or economic assistance) or from the subjective experience of social isolation (leading to ”
Loneliness, social support networks, mood and wellbeing in community‐dwelling elderly (2009, background): “Few epidemiological studies have clearly distinguished between objective and subjective social isolation, but among those that have, some evidence supports a significant adverse effect of each on health (Cacioppo and Hawkley, 2003; Cacioppo et al., 2006; Cole et al., 2007).”
Psychometric Qualities of the UCLA Loneliness Scale-Version 3 as Applied in a Turkish Culture (2010, background): “Moreover, loneliness has been found to be related to health outcomes such as increment in hypertension (Cacioppo et al., 2002), inefficiency in sleep (Cacioppo & Hawkley, 2003) and poor perceived health (Theeke, 2009).”
Social Relationships and Health: A Flashpoint for Health Policy (2010, background): “…the confluence of smaller families, high divorce rates, employment-related geographical mobility, and population aging means that adults of all ages, and in particular the elderly, will be at increasing risk of social isolation and shrinking family ties in the future (Cacioppo and Hawkley 2003).”
Belonging: a review of conceptual issues, an integrative framework, and directions for future research (2021, background): “…including psychology (Baumeister & Leary, 1995), sociology (May, 2011), education (Morieson et al., 2013), urban education (Riley, 2017), medicine (Cacioppo & Hawkley, 2003), public health (Stead et al., 2011), economics (Bhalla & Lapeyre, 1997), design (Schein, 2009; Trudeau, 2006; Weare, 2010),…”
AN EVOLUTIONARY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF OSTRACISM (2012, background): “…has found a correlation between chronic isolation and negative health outcomes/mortality in both humans and non-human social animals (Baumeister & Leary, 1995; Cacioppo & Hawkley, 2003; Goodall, 1986), lending credence to the argument that ostracism is social death (Boehm, 1986; Williams, 2007).”
Social Disconnectedness, Perceived Isolation, and Health among Older Adults (2009, unknown): “Yet, compared to health behaviors such as smoking and obesity, much less is known about how and why social isolation affects health (Cacioppo and Hawkley 2003; House, Landis, and Umberson 1988).”
Loneliness among older European adults: results from the survey of health, aging and retirement in Europe (2018, background): “Loneliness, "as a stressor itself,^ accounts for higher negative affect and less emotional regulation (Cacioppo and Hawkley 2003) and thus greater depression (Singh and Misra 2009).”
Strong and consistent social bonds enhance the longevity of female baboons. (2010, background): “Social ties seem to buffer the short-term effects of stress and may enhance the efficacy of anabolic processes involved in somatic maintenance and repair [25].”
Social relationships and physiological determinants of longevity across the human life span (2016, background): “In humans, deficits in social relationships such as social isolation or low social support can similarly lead to chronic activation of immune, neuroendocrine, and metabolic systems that lie in the pathways, leading to cardiovascular, neoplastic, and other common aging-related diseases (5, 8, 17, 18)”