Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Meanwhile, rates of loneliness among teens before the pandemic ranged from 9.2% to 14.4% in different parts of the world, according to a meta-analysis of pre-pandemic studies.
The loneliness epidemic is an ongoing trend of loneliness and social isolation experienced by people across the globe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The uptick may have begun in the 2010s and was exacerbated by the isolating effects of social distancing , stay-at-home orders , and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic .
In the US, the male loneliness crisis affects fathers deeply, says author and stay-at-home dad Shannon Carpenter. Here are ways to address the unmet need for connection.
These masculinity norms exert a toll on everyone, even their perpetrators. Feminine gay men are at higher risk of suicide, loneliness and mental illness. Masculine gay men, for their part, are more anxious, have more risky sex and use drugs and tobacco with greater frequency. One study investigating why living in the gay community increases ...
A study found social isolation to be among the most common risk factors identified by Australian men who attempt suicide. Professor Ian Hickie of the University of Sydney said that social isolation was perhaps the most important factor contributing to male suicide attempts. Hickie said there was a wealth of evidence that men had more restricted ...
Bost limns, "As a form of negative affect, loneliness shores up the alienation, isolation, and pathologization of black gay men during the 1980s and early 1990s. But loneliness is also a form of bodily desire, a yearning for an attachment to the social and for a future beyond the forces that create someone's alienation and isolation." [55]
Helen Coffey investigates how the negative effects of male loneliness are being felt across every aspect of our society. LET’S UNPACK THAT: Boys are socialised from as young as four to reject ...
Nearly one-quarter of the world’s population feels lonely, a new Meta-Gallup poll suggests, with young adults reporting higher rates of loneliness than older adults.