Meaning in Life: A Major Predictive Factor for Loneliness Comparable to Health Status and Social Connectedness.

ABSTRACT: Objective: Loneliness is the subjective distress of feeling alone and has a strong impact on wellbeing and health. In addition to well-known predictors like isolation and poor health, a better understanding of the psychological determinants of loneliness would offer effective targets for future complementary interventions. Methods: In this cross-sectional observational study (N = 2,240), we compared the explanatory power of several important risk factors of loneliness with the affective, motivational, and cognitive aspects of the Meaning in Life (MiL) construct. Different nested linear models were compared including socio-demographic, lifestyles, social-connectedness, and self-rated health variables, to assess the overlapping and non-overlapping explanatory power of ea

SUBMITTER: Macia D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7943478 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature