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

作者：Manuela Barreto, Christina Rita Victor, Claudia Hammond, Alice M. Eccles, Matt T. Richins, Pamela Qualter · 发表于：Personality and Individual Differences · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.1016/j.paid.2020.110066 · 被引用次数：847 · 研究领域：Health disparities and outcomes、Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction、Aging and Gerontology Research

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, and simply accentuated them. We found the most vulnerable to loneliness were younger men living in individualistic cultures