ArticleJournal of behavioral and experimental economics2022
Gender, loneliness and happiness
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- How Race, Gender, and Cohort Shape Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Americans.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026Article
- The effect of emotion regulation difficulties and loneliness on anxiety, depression, and stress levels in remote workers.BMC public health · 2025Observational
- Loneliness and Distress in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study of German University Students.Clinical psychology in Europe · 2025Article
- Two paradoxes in women's well-being.Science advances · 2025Review
- Researching gender and loneliness differently.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Associations of subjective age trajectories with loneliness and stress across adulthood.PloS one · 2025Article
- Risk factors for loneliness: A literature review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Review
- The gender dimensions of mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic: A path analysis.PloS one · 2023Article
- Loneliness and associated factors among older adults during COVID-19 lockdown in Spain.Journal of applied developmental psychologyArticle
- Loneliness and happiness in the face of the COVID-19 lockdown: Examining the pathways through somatic symptoms and psychological distress.Health psychology openArticle
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6 authors at 5 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
We analyse a measure of loneliness from a representative sample of German individuals interviewed in both 2017 and at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Both men and women felt lonelier during the COVID-19 pandemic than they did in 2017. The pandemic more than doubled the gender loneliness gap: women were lonelier than men in 2017, and the 2017-2020 rise in loneliness was far larger for women. This rise is mirrored in life-satisfaction scores. Men's life satisfaction changed only little between 2017 and 2020; yet that of women fell dramatically, and sufficiently so to produce a female penalty in life satisfaction. We estimate that almost all of this female penalty is explained by the disproportionate rise in loneliness for women during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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