Loneliness around the world: Age, gender, and cultural differences in loneliness
dc.contributor.author | Barreto, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Victor, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Hammond, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Eccles, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Richins, MT | |
dc.contributor.author | Qualter, P | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-17T10:11:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-04-26 | |
dc.description.abstract | The 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, simply accentuated them. We found the most vulnerable to loneliness were younger men living in individualistic cultures. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Wellcome Trust | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Article 110066 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110066 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 209625/Z/17/Z | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/120713 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier for International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/). | en_GB |
dc.subject | Loneliness | en_GB |
dc.subject | age | en_GB |
dc.subject | gender | en_GB |
dc.subject | culture | en_GB |
dc.subject | BBC Loneliness Experiment | en_GB |
dc.title | Loneliness around the world: Age, gender, and cultural differences in loneliness | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-17T10:11:44Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0191-8869 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Elsevier via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Personality and Individual Differences | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-04-16 | |
exeter.funder | ::Wellcome Trust | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-04-16 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-04-16T14:07:37Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-05-05T15:17:16Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
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