ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Tell Me about Loneliness: Interviews with Young People about What Loneliness Is and How to Cope with It.
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- "No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way": A Qualitative Exploration of Friendship Expectations and Reality in University Life.Journal of adolescence · 2025Article
- Loneliness and depressive symptoms in institutionally isolated Polish adolescents explored through network psychometrics.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Exploring child and youth understanding of loneliness through qualitative insights and evaluating loneliness measures considering those lived experiences.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Exploring the lived experience of loneliness and social isolation in informal palliative caregivers: A systematic review.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Review
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- Loneliness in adolescence: prevalence, developmental contexts, and interventions.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Development and refinement of a communication guide to help young adults in Texas reconnect and reduce loneliness.PEC innovation · 2024Article
- Exploring Loneliness among Korean Adults: A Concept Mapping Approach.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Role of School Connectedness and Friend Contact in Adolescent Loneliness, and Implications for Physical Health.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Exploring how children and adolescents talk about coping strategies relating to loneliness using reflexive thematic analysis: a qualitative study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- A Short-Form Measure of Loneliness to Predict Depression Symptoms Among Adolescents.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundloneliness is a common experience for adolescents, yet the voices of adolescents are missing from current conceptualisations of loneliness. That means, measures that have been created based on current conceptualisations may miss important contexts of adolescence, such as the roles of friendships, that determine the way loneliness is experienced. The current study aims to centre adolescent voices to identify how they conceptualise loneliness and what strategies they consider to be useful for adolescents to cope with loneliness.
methodthematic framework analysis (TFA) was conducted on qualitative interviews with young people aged 8-14 years in Belgium and Italy to identify salient themes in their conceptualisations of loneliness.
resultsLoneliness was conceptualised as a negative emotional state involving negative thinking patterns that occurs when an individual perceives they are missing out on a desired aspect in their social relationships. Coping strategies related to alleviating negative affect, and aiding social reconnection.
conclusionsfriendships with peers were understood to be central to adolescent loneliness experiences. In line with that, loneliness was seen to be experienced at school. Age-related differences in friendship expectations were identified, highlighting how developmental needs relate to the loneliness experience.
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