Daily loneliness deconstructed: Examining patterns of within- and between-person variation.

ABSTRACT: There is growing interest in examining loneliness using intensive repeated assessment methods in daily life; however, much remains unknown regarding variation in loneliness at the within- and between-person level. Better characterizing dynamic daily experiences of loneliness will help clarify the nature of loneliness experiences that may be indicative of current and future risk for chronic loneliness and provide information to inform future study designs. We characterized daily loneliness among an online sample of 98 adults (23-78 years, 55% women, generally healthy) who completed daily surveys for 14 consecutive days (N_observations = 1,330). Participants were systematically recruited in 2024 based on loneliness status categories (41 chronically lonely, 27 acutely lonely,

SUBMITTER: Van Bogart K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12645455 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature