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Psychology Research and Behavior Management
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- Social media and mental health: exploring their complex relationships (21)
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The pandemic of loneliness: What is it, how does it affect us, and how do we handle it?
Loneliness has always been an integral part of human life and will probably continue to be so. Our Western culture has aspects which appear to magnify the alienation and impose the separateness that we can feel. As loneliness was stigmatized, not much was discussed or researched about it, until two episodes which helped bring loneliness "out of the closet". One was the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, who appointed a Minister of Loneliness Affairs, and the other was COVID-19; both legitimized an open admission and discussion of loneliness. Consequently, we see lately an increase in research interest in this topic, and it is thus an opportunity to have a collection of articles that address it.
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Online Binge-Watching Among Chinese College Students: Implications for Loneliness, Anxiety, and Depression
Yu H, Alizadeh F
Psychology Research and Behavior Management 2024, 17:295-303
Published Date: 26 January 2024
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Totally All Alone with My Thoughts: Development, Psychometric Properties and Correlates of the Loneliness Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire
Rose AL, Goldberg JO, Flett GL, Nepon T, Besser A
Psychology Research and Behavior Management 2024, 17:1073-1085
Published Date: 12 March 2024
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The Effect of Loneliness on Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Behavior in Chinese Junior High School Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model
Huang X, Liu H, Lan Z, Deng F
Psychology Research and Behavior Management 2023, 16:1831-1843
Published Date: 16 May 2023
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Existential Loneliness Among Older People from the Perspective of Health Care Professionals: A European Multicenter Study
Edberg AK, Trogu G, Manattini A, Renn-Żurek A, Modrzejewska DM, Woźnicka EB, Popovici S, Pintilie L, Beck I, Virbalienė A, Šiurienė A
Psychology Research and Behavior Management 2023, 16:2241-2252
Published Date: 20 June 2023
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Fear, Loneliness, Happiness and Mental Health in the Post-COVID-19 Period: A Cross-Cultural Study in a Sample of Japanese and Polish University Students
Klinkosz W, Styk W, Iskra J, Trzepińska G
Psychology Research and Behavior Management 2023, 16:2695-2707
Published Date: 18 July 2023
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Assessment of an Epidemic Urgency: Psychometric Evidence for the UCLA Loneliness Scale
Bottaro R, Valenti GD, Faraci P
Psychology Research and Behavior Management 2023, 16:2843-2855
Published Date: 26 July 2023
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The Psychological Network of Loneliness Symptoms Among Chinese Residents During the COVID-19 Outbreak
Zhong BL, Yuan MD, Li F, Sun P
Psychology Research and Behavior Management 2023, 16:3767-3776
Published Date: 8 September 2023
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Social Support and Daytime Sleepiness Among Chinese Medical Students: Mediating Roles of Loneliness and Problematic Smartphone Use
Chen S, Li H, Wen D
Psychology Research and Behavior Management 2023, 16:4083-4093
Published Date: 5 October 2023
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Loneliness Trajectories, Associated Factors and Subsequent Health in Children and Young People During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Matched Cohort Study
Schneider V, Norris T, Nugawela M, Dalrymple E, Hargreaves D, Käll A, McOwat K, Shafran R, Stephenson T, Xu L, Pinto Pereira SM
Psychology Research and Behavior Management 2023, 16:4461-4477
Published Date: 1 November 2023
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Neurogenetics and Epigenetics of Loneliness
Bowirrat A, Elman I, Dennen CA, Gondré-Lewis MC, Cadet JL, Khalsa J, Baron D, Soni D, Gold MS, McLaughlin TJ, Bagchi D, Braverman ER, Ceccanti M, Thanos PK, Modestino EJ, Sunder K, Jafari N, Zeine F, Badgaiyan RD, Barh D, Makale M, Murphy KT, Blum K
Psychology Research and Behavior Management 2023, 16:4839-4857
Published Date: 29 November 2023
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Psychological Status, Influencing Factors and Intervention Countermeasures of Hospital Pharmacists in Extreme Working Environments in the Post-Pandemic Era--An Embedded Mixed Study
Yang X, Wen L, Zheng J, Nie H, Liu S, Chen C, Si F, Zhang X, Kang J, Du S, Yin Z
Psychology Research and Behavior Management 2023, 16:5089-5100
Published Date: 19 December 2023
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Alleviating the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Physical, Psychological Health, and Wellbeing of Students: Coping Behavior as a Mediator
Younas M, Dong Y, Menhas R, Li X, Wang Y, Noor U
Psychology Research and Behavior Management 2023, 16:5255-5270
Published Date: 28 December 2023