Loneliness around the world: Age, gender, and cultural differences in loneliness

AbstractThe BBC Loneliness Experiment provided a unique opportunity to examine differences in the experience of lonelines across cultures, age, and gender, and the interaction between these factors. Using those data, we analysed the frequency of loneliness reported by 46,054 participants aged 16–99 ...

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Veröffentlicht in:Personality and individual differences Jg. 169; S. 110066
Hauptverfasser: Barreto, Manuela, Victor, Christina, Hammond, Claudia, Eccles, Alice, Richins, Matt T, Qualter, Pamela
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: England Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2021
Elsevier Science Ltd
Pergamon Press
Schlagworte:
Age
Age differences
BBC loneliness experiment
Collectivism
Cultural differences
Cultural factors
Culture
Gender
Gender differences
Individualism
Islands
Loneliness
Psychiatric/Mental Health
Loneliness
Gender
BBC loneliness experiment
Age
Culture
ISSN:0191-8869, 1873-3549, 0191-8869
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Zusammenfassung:AbstractThe BBC Loneliness Experiment provided a unique opportunity to examine differences in the experience of lonelines across cultures, age, and gender, and the interaction between these factors. Using those data, we analysed the frequency of loneliness reported by 46,054 participants aged 16–99 years, living across 237 countries, islands, and territories, representing the full range of individualism-collectivism cultures, as defined by Hofstede (1997). Findings showed that loneliness increased with individualism, decreased with age, and was greater in men than in women. We also found that age, gender, and culture interacted to predict loneliness, although those interactions did not qualify the main effects, and simply accentuated them. We found the most vulnerable to loneliness were younger men living in individualistic cultures .
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Also at Lisbon University Institute (CIS-ISCTE/IUL).
Currently at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
Currently a PhD student at University of Central Lancashire, Preston.
ISSN:0191-8869
1873-3549
0191-8869
DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2020.110066