This is what loneliness looks like: A mixed-methods study of loneliness in adolescence and young adulthood.

ABSTRACT: The present study used quantitative and qualitative methods to explore how lonely young people are seen from others' perspectives, in terms of their personality, behaviour and life circumstances. Data were drawn from the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study, a cohort of 2,232 individuals born in the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s. When participants were aged 18, they provided self-reports of loneliness, and informant ratings of loneliness were provided by interviewers, as well as participants' parents and siblings. Interviewers further provided Big Five personality ratings, and detailed written notes in which they documented their perceptions of the participants and their reflections on the content of the interview. In the quantitative section of the paper, regression analyses were

SUBMITTER: Matthews T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7612187 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature