ArticleJournal of public health (Oxford, England)2023
Loneliness in young people: a multilevel exploration of social ecological influences and geographic variation.
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- Community and societal influences on loneliness and social isolation among young adults: a systematic review of observational studies.Epidemiologic reviews · 2026Pooled it
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- Loneliness and adolescent mental health: a multilevel examination of socio-ecological factors across Czech schools.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Economic insecurity and depression among youth of color during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Social media use, online experiences, and loneliness among young adults: A cohort study.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Social connection and its prospective association with adolescent internalising and externalising symptoms: an exploratory cross-country study using retrospective harmonisation.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Social-ecological factors associated with loneliness in university students: results from the German cross-sectional StudiBiFra study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Loneliness in adolescence: prevalence, developmental contexts, and interventions.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- This is the place: a multi-level analysis of neighbourhood correlates of adolescent wellbeing.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Predictors of male loneliness across life stages: an Australian study of longitudinal data.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Young people's views on the acceptability and feasibility of loneliness interventions for their age group.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Analysis of the Influence of Socio-Demographic Variables and Some Nutrition and Lifestyle Habits on Beverage Consumption in the Spanish Population.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Adolescents' loneliness in European schools: a multilevel exploration of school environment and individual factors.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Risk factors for loneliness: A literature review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Review
- Neighbourhood effects on loneliness among adolescents.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Mental health and loneliness in Scottish schools: A multilevel analysis of data from the health behaviour in school-aged children study.The British journal of educational psychology · 2023Article
- Living Alone: Associations with Diet and Health in the Spanish Young Adult Population.Nutrients · 2023Article
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backgroundLoneliness is a growing public health concern, yet little is known about loneliness in young people. The current study aimed to identify social ecological factors related to loneliness and examine the extent to which geographic region may account for differences in loneliness.
methodsThe data come from a cross-sectional sample of 6503 young people living in the UK. Loneliness was measured using the UCLA 3-item scale. Bivariate analyses were used to test associations between each predictor and loneliness. Multilevel models were used to identify key social ecological factors related to loneliness, and the extent to which loneliness may vary across geographic regions (local authority districts).
resultsSociodemographic, social, health and well-being, and community factors were found to be associated with loneliness. Geographic region was associated with 5-8% of the variation in loneliness. The effect of gender, sexual orientation and minority ethnic background on loneliness differed across regions.
conclusionsThis is the first study to highlight modifiable social and community factors related to youth loneliness, and individual vulnerabilities, such as poor mental well-being. Results related to geographic differences suggest that local-level initiatives may be most appropriate in tackling loneliness, rather than wider, less contextualized national efforts.
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