ArticleResearch on child and adolescent psychopathology2023
Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: Moderating a Random Intercept Cross-lagged Panel Model of Loneliness and Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression.
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- A systematic review of longitudinal risk and protective factors for loneliness in youth.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Loneliness and Personality: Noise- and Bias-Free True Correlations Between Loneliness and the Big Five Personality Domains.Journal of personality · 2026Article
- From Social Status Insecurity to Popularity: Testing Bullying as a Strategy and Classroom Norms as a Moderator.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Adolescent loneliness in the United States: Prevalence, sociodemographic correlates, and psychological health over time.SSM - population health · 2026Article
- Longitudinal relationship between anxiety and sleep quality in community residents: the mediating effect of loneliness.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Understanding the Effect of Loneliness on Quality of Life in Older Adults from Longitudinal Approaches.Psychosocial intervention · 2024Article
- "Alone Again, Naturally": Mental Health Problems, Level of Personality Functioning, Social Withdrawal and Loneliness in Adolescents Admitted as Acute Inpatients in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Senior volunteers: addressing loneliness in times of COVID-19.European journal of ageing · 2023Article
- Preventing Loneliness and Reducing Dropout: Results from the COMPLETE Intervention Study in Upper Secondary Schools in Norway.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Evaluating Associations Between Friendship Characteristics and Mental, Physical, and Cognitive Health.Research on agingArticle
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Abstract
The present study investigated the trait- and state-like associations between loneliness and symptoms of anxiety and depression during three years in middle to late adolescence. The moderating effect of gender and social self-efficacy was examined on the hypothesised model. The sample consisted of 1508 Norwegian upper secondary school students (61% female; mean age at T1 = 16.33; 52.9% high socioeconomic position; 70.6% Norwegian-born). We found 1) strong and positive trait- and state-like associations between loneliness and symptoms of anxiety and depression, 2) that anxiety and depressive symptoms consistently predicted later loneliness but not the other way around, 3) that gender moderated parts of the state-like associations between loneliness and symptoms of anxiety and depression, and 4) that social self-efficacy had no moderating effect on the longitudinal relationship between loneliness and anxiety and depressive symptoms. The present study might inform future research, theory development, and intervention strategies in middle to late adolescent samples.
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