Boyd.NegativeEffectsofLoneliness by

boydx372 — 2025-02-20 04:17:18 UTC

"Several lifestyles and environment factors are risk factors for early mortality, including smoking, sedentary lifestyle, and air pollution. However, in the scientific literature, much less attention has been given to social factors demonstrated to have equivalent or greater influence on mortality risk." (Holt-Lunstad)

boydx372 — 2025-02-20 04:21:01 UTC

"Loneliness is the perception of social isolation, or the subjective experience of being lonely, and thus involves necessarily subjective measurement. Loneliness has also been described as the dissatisfaction with the discrepancy between desired and actual social relationship." (Holt-Lunstand)

boydx372 — 2025-02-20 04:35:48 UTC

"Chronic overactivation of this stress response, as might occur when an individual appraises life as persistently and profoundly lacking support and connection (i.e., severe loneliness), may cause or intensify the experience of pain, fatigue, and/or depression.' (Powell)

boydx372 — 2025-02-20 04:36:43 UTC

"Loneliness strongly predicts the development of pain, fatigue, and depression as well as the symptom cluster over time in a large, nonclinical sample of older American adults. This relationship persisted after adjusting for the presence of symptoms at baseline and sociodemographic covariates." (Powell)

boydx372 — 2025-02-20 04:56:21 UTC

"Loneliness whose source is primarily characterological on the other hand requires either a life change (such as marriage or entrance into a commune) that virtually ensures association or, alternatively, something akin to a change in character. The extant to which attitudes toward others change simply in the course of living does not seem as yet to have been investigated." (Peplau)

boydx372 — 2025-02-20 04:58:57 UTC

"Some individuals for whom linkages to other foster anxiety choose to withdraw from others. In this way they escape anxiety, though at the cost of reducing their opportunities for gratification." (Peplau)

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boydx372 — 2025-02-20 05:03:55 UTC

Both of these quote talk about the stress and anxiety associated with loneliness.

Connection

boydx372 — 2025-02-20 05:05:48 UTC

These quotes describe the physical risks that loneliness can have.

boydx372 — 2025-02-20 05:07:53 UTC

Both of these quotes talk about the social prblems associated with loneliness.