Loneliness in the Daily Lives of People With Mood and Psychotic Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background and hypothesis

Loneliness, the subjective experience of feeling alone, is associated with physical and psychological impairments. While there is an extensive literature linking loneliness to psychopathology, limited work has examined loneliness in daily life in those with serious mental illness. We hypothesized that trait and momentary loneliness would be transdiagnostic and relate to symptoms and measures of daily functioning.

Study design

The current study utilized ecological momentary assessment and passive sensing to examine loneliness in those with schizophrenia (N = 59), bipolar disorder (N = 61), unipolar depression (N = 60), remitted unipolar depression (N = 51), and nonclinical comparisons (N = 82) to examine relationships of both trait and momentary lone

SUBMITTER: Moran EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11059807 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature