ArticleFrontiers in digital health2022
Dynamics of Loneliness Among Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Pilot Study of Ecological Momentary Assessment With Network Analysis.
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- Compliance with ecological momentary assessment programmes in the elderly: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2023Pooled it
- Experiencing awe in daily life is linked to lower loneliness.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Ecological Momentary Assessment to Measure Social Connectedness in Older Adults: Integrative Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Review
- Dynamic influence of mood on subjective cognitive complaints in mild cognitive impairment: A time series network analysis approach.International psychogeriatrics · 2025Article
- Advances in the assessment and study of suicide in late-life depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Daily Social Isolation Maps Onto Distinctive Features of Anhedonic Behavior: A Combined Ecological and Computational Investigation.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Article
- Dynamics of Perceived Social Isolation, Secondary Conditions, and Daily Activity Patterns Among Individuals With Stroke: A Network Analysis of Ecological Momentary Assessment Data.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2024Observational
- Examining the Bidirectional Nature of Loneliness and Anxiety Among Older Adults in Daily Life.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- The positive and negative emotion functions related to loneliness: a systematic review of behavioural and neuroimaging studies.Psychoradiology · 2023Review
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Abstract
objectiveThe COVID-19 pandemic has had potentially severe psychological implications for older adults, including those in retirement communities, due to restricted social interactions, but the day-to-day experience of loneliness has received limited study. We sought to investigate sequential association, if any, between loneliness, activity, and affect.
methodsWe used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) with dynamic network analysis to investigate the affective and behavioral concomitants of loneliness in 22 residents of an independent living sector of a continuing care retirement community (mean age 80.2; range 68-93 years).
resultsParticipants completed mean 83.9% of EMA surveys (SD = 16.1%). EMA ratings of loneliness were moderately correlated with UCLA loneliness scale scores. Network models showed that loneliness was contemporaneously associated with negative affect (worried, anxious, restless, irritable). Negative (but not happy or positive) mood tended to be followed by loneliness and then by exercise or outdoor physical activity. Negative affect had significant and high inertia (stability).
conclusionsThe data suggest that EMA is feasible and acceptable to older adults. EMA-assessed loneliness was moderately associated with scale-assessed loneliness. Network models in these independent living older adults indicated strong links between negative affect and loneliness, but feelings of loneliness were followed by outdoor activity, suggesting adaptive behavior among relatively healthy adults.
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