How Migration Status Shapes Susceptibility of Individuals' Loneliness to Social Isolation.

ABSTRACT: Objectives: Our research provides competing hypotheses and empirical evidence how associations between objectively social isolation and subjective loneliness differ between host populations, migrants, and refugees. Methods: The analysis uses data of 25,171 participants from a random sample of the German population (SOEP v.35). We estimate regression models for the host population, migrants, and refugees and test five hypotheses on the association between social isolation and loneliness using a Bayesian approach in a multiverse framework. Results: We find the strongest relative support for an increased need for social inclusion among refugees, indicated by a higher Bayes factor compared to the hosts and migrants. However, all theoretically developed hypotheses perform p

SUBMITTER: Lobel LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9763294 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature