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Loneliness is a major problem in the U.S. The Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, sounded the alarm about America’s “loneliness epidemic” in 2023, citing the connection between loneliness and ...
An updated survey from Gallup shows that one in five U.S. adults say they were feeling lonely. The poll asked “did you experience loneliness a lot of the day yesterday?” Gallup said 20% of ...
A new Gallup survey published on Tuesday found that 1 in 5 Americans reports feeling lonely on a daily basis. While this number is concerning, it’s actually down from the previous pandemic-era ...
Finally, in a study evaluating 99 countries, it was found that those who prioritize friendships tend to be happier, especially if they are women, older people, less educated or people of an individualistic culture. Friendships becoming less prioritized in North America may mean that the friendship recession is causing a decrease in happiness ...
As young men become less likely to join the workforce or pursue higher education, they’re also more lonely than women. Home alone and not up to much Men aged 18 to 30 spend more waking hours ...
Lonelier people are more likely to show evidence of viral reactivation than less lonely people. [112] Lonelier people also have stronger inflammatory responses to acute stress compared with less lonely people; inflammation is a well known risk factor for age-related diseases. [113]
The review notes that from 1990 to 2010, the number of Americans reporting no close confidants had tripled. [5] A number of studies were published shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic by academics such as Claude S. Fischer and Eric Klinenberg. While it wasn't always clear to all scholars that loneliness was an "epidemic," the studies did ...
Myth #4: Being alone means being lonely. You might see someone eating dinner solo or on their own at a concert or movie screening and think, “Oh, they must be lonely.”