Owner of a lonely heart: The stability of loneliness across the life span.

Autor/inn/en	Mund, Marcus; Lüdtke, Oliver; Neyer, Franz J.
Titel	Owner of a lonely heart: The stability of loneliness across the life span.
Quelle	In: Journal of personality and social psychology, 119 (2019) 2, S. 497-516 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-3514; 1939-1315
DOI	10.1037/pspp0000262
Schlagwörter	Einsamkeit; Persönlichkeitsentwicklung; Messung; Messverfahren; Internationaler Vergleich; Altersgruppe; Einflussfaktor; Geschlechtsspezifik; Individueller Unterschied; Theorie; Erwachsener; Australien; Deutschland; Niederlande; Schweiz
Abstract	Individuals feel lonely when they perceive a discrepancy between their aspired and their actually experienced amount of closeness and intimacy in social relationships. In the present study, [the authors] disentangled developmental constancy factors, time-varying factors such as person-environment transactions, and stochastic mechanisms as sources of interindividual differences in loneliness by applying STARTS models in nationally representative samples from Germany [...], Switzerland [...], Australia [...], and The Netherlands [...]. Across the 4 studies, [the authors] found trait-like sources reflecting developmental constancy factors and the influence of time-varying factors to account for 19-43% and 23-30% of interindividual differences in loneliness, .[...] [the authors] found gradual sex differences but considerable differences between age groups regarding the amount of interindividual differences in loneliness accounted for by the three sources. Taken together, the results demonstrate that interindividual differences in loneliness are to a large degree trait-like. Based on these findings, [the authors] discuss implications for theory and measurement. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2021/1