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The Psychological Network of Loneliness Symptoms Among Chinese Residents During the COVID-19 Outbreak
PURPOSE: Social distancing measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to increased levels of loneliness, but the specific interactions between loneliness symptoms in the context of the pandemic remain unknown. This study characterized the psychological network of loneliness s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10497046/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37705850 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S424565 |
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author | Zhong, Bao-Liang Yuan, Meng-Di Li, Fang Sun, Peng |
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description | PURPOSE: Social distancing measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to increased levels of loneliness, but the specific interactions between loneliness symptoms in the context of the pandemic remain unknown. This study characterized the psychological network of loneliness symptoms in residents during the initial wave of COVID-19 outbreak in China. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The study recruited 8472 Chinese residents (61.5% women, aged 33.0±10.6 years) through online snowball sampling. The Six-item De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale (DJGLS) was used to measure loneliness symptoms. Central symptoms of and bridge symptoms between emotional and social loneliness subscales were identified based on centrality and bridge centrality indices, respectively. Network stability was examined using the case-dropping procedures. RESULTS: The nodes in the loneliness network were separated into two groups, corresponding to the social and emotional loneliness domains of the DJGLS. The strongest direction association was between “no reliable people” and “no trustworthy people” (edge weight=0.546). “No trustworthy people” has the highest node strength (1.047) in the loneliness network, followed by “emptiness sense” (0.767) and “no reliable people” (0.749). “Feeling of rejection” (1.672) and “no close people” (0.403) showed the first and second highest bridge strengths, respectively. Both the stability and accuracy tests supported robustness of the whole network. CONCLUSION: Interventions targeting central symptoms “no trustworthy people” and “emptiness sense” and central bridge symptom “feeling of rejection” may be effective for alleviating the overall level of loneliness in pandemic-affected Chinese residents. |
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spelling | pubmed-104970462023-09-13 The Psychological Network of Loneliness Symptoms Among Chinese Residents During the COVID-19 Outbreak Zhong, Bao-Liang Yuan, Meng-Di Li, Fang Sun, Peng Psychol Res Behav Manag Original Research PURPOSE: Social distancing measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to increased levels of loneliness, but the specific interactions between loneliness symptoms in the context of the pandemic remain unknown. This study characterized the psychological network of loneliness symptoms in residents during the initial wave of COVID-19 outbreak in China. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The study recruited 8472 Chinese residents (61.5% women, aged 33.0±10.6 years) through online snowball sampling. The Six-item De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale (DJGLS) was used to measure loneliness symptoms. Central symptoms of and bridge symptoms between emotional and social loneliness subscales were identified based on centrality and bridge centrality indices, respectively. Network stability was examined using the case-dropping procedures. RESULTS: The nodes in the loneliness network were separated into two groups, corresponding to the social and emotional loneliness domains of the DJGLS. The strongest direction association was between “no reliable people” and “no trustworthy people” (edge weight=0.546). “No trustworthy people” has the highest node strength (1.047) in the loneliness network, followed by “emptiness sense” (0.767) and “no reliable people” (0.749). “Feeling of rejection” (1.672) and “no close people” (0.403) showed the first and second highest bridge strengths, respectively. Both the stability and accuracy tests supported robustness of the whole network. CONCLUSION: Interventions targeting central symptoms “no trustworthy people” and “emptiness sense” and central bridge symptom “feeling of rejection” may be effective for alleviating the overall level of loneliness in pandemic-affected Chinese residents. Dove 2023-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10497046/ /pubmed/37705850 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S424565 Text en © 2023 Zhong et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Zhong, Bao-Liang Yuan, Meng-Di Li, Fang Sun, Peng The Psychological Network of Loneliness Symptoms Among Chinese Residents During the COVID-19 Outbreak |
title | The Psychological Network of Loneliness Symptoms Among Chinese Residents During the COVID-19 Outbreak |
title_full | The Psychological Network of Loneliness Symptoms Among Chinese Residents During the COVID-19 Outbreak |
title_fullStr | The Psychological Network of Loneliness Symptoms Among Chinese Residents During the COVID-19 Outbreak |
title_full_unstemmed | The Psychological Network of Loneliness Symptoms Among Chinese Residents During the COVID-19 Outbreak |
title_short | The Psychological Network of Loneliness Symptoms Among Chinese Residents During the COVID-19 Outbreak |
title_sort | psychological network of loneliness symptoms among chinese residents during the covid-19 outbreak |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10497046/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37705850 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S424565 |
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