loneliness

Examples of loneliness in the following topics:

• Socioemotional Development in Late Adulthood

  • If an elderly person has to move away from friends, community, their home, or other familiar aspects of their life in order to enter a nursing home, they may experience isolation, depression, or loneliness.
  • Many older adults contend with feelings of loneliness as their loves ones, partners, or friends pass away or as their children or other family members move away and live their own lives.
  • Loneliness and isolation can have detrimental effects on health and psychological well-being.
  • However, many adults counteract loneliness by having active social lives, living in retirement communities, or participating in positive hobbies.
  • Staying active and involved in life counteracts loneliness and helps increase feelings of self-esteem and self-worth.

• Social Isolation

  • Social isolation is distinct from loneliness.
  • Loneliness reflects a temporary lack of contact with other humans and is a subjective experience.

• Isolation and Development

  • Social isolation is not the same as loneliness rooted in temporary lack of contact with other humans, nor is it the same as isolating actions that might be consciously undertaken by an individual.
  • While loneliness is often fleeting, true social isolation often lasts for years or decades and tends to be a chronic condition that affects all aspects of a person's existence and can have serious consequences for health and well being.

• Neo-Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality

  • Horney’s theories focused on "unconscious anxiety," which she believed stemmed from early childhood experiences of unmet needs, loneliness, and/or isolation.

• Understanding Culture Shock

• Children of Divorce and Impact of Divorce

  • They feel anger, fear, depression, loneliness, and guilt.

• Socioemotional Development in Adulthood

  • ., 20s and early 30s), people tend to be concerned with forming meaningful relationships; young and middle-aged adults are subject to loneliness if they are unable to form meaningful relationships with family, friends, or community.

• Abnormal Psychology

  • However, consider the nervousness someone feels when talking to a person they are attracted to or the loneliness and longing for home a freshman might experience during their first semester of college—these feelings may not be regularly present, but they fall in a range most would consider normal.

• Pioneer Women

  • On the other hand, historians Elizabeth Hampsten, in Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains (1991), and Lillian Schlissel, with Byrd Gibbens and Elizabeth Hampsten, who wrote Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey (2002), offer a grim portrait of loneliness, privation, abuse, and demanding physical labor from an early age.

• Where Will You Get Your Good Ideas?

  • In other words, the overwhelming majority of sea urchin eggs die of loneliness or get eaten.