ArticleJournal of happiness studies2023
Alone in a Crowd: Is Social Contact Associated with Less Psychological Pain of Loneliness in Everyday Life?
Article in Journal of happiness studies, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Social connectedness and disconnectedness in individuals with recent onset psychosis and suicidal experiences: a systematic review of the evidence.BMC psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Cardiovascular Mortality: The Role of Health Care System Interventions.Current cardiology reports · 2024Pooled it
- Multidimensional Social Interaction and School Refusal Tendency Among Elementary and Junior High School Students: A Three-Year Longitudinal Study with an Exploratory Indirect-Association Analysis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Gaming‑Based Community Intervention for Loneliness in Adult Gamers: Longitudinal Observational Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Observational
- Electroencephalography-based psychological and physiological effects of winter virtual forest trail landscapes on youth.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Relationship between qualitative and quantitative loneliness and suicidal ideation by occupational classification in the working-age population: a nationally-representative survey.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Mitigating the affective and cognitive consequences of social exclusion: an integrative data analysis of seven social disconnection interventions.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Perceived Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Social Support Resources of Frail Older People Ageing in Place Alone in Italy.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effects of activity participation and cognitive levels on depression in middle-aged and older adults with chronic illness: a national cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
People are often advised to engage in social contact to cope with the experience of loneliness and improve well-being. But are the moments of loneliness actually more bearable when spent in other people's company? In this research, we proposed and tested two conflicting theoretical accounts regarding the role of social contact: social contact is associated with a stronger (the amplifying account) or with a weaker (the buffering account) negative effect of loneliness on psychological well-being. Analyses of three datasets collected using ecological momentary assessments ( Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10902-023-00661-3.
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