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Levels of loneliness
1. Levels of Loneliness
Ayoma, Karla Caressa
Bajana, Sheema B.
Flores, Cil Antonette
Galdo, Geneva
Muñoz, Regina
Ocaña, Kim
2. Loneliness is a universal human emotion, yet it is
both complex and unique to each individual.
Loneliness has no single common cause, so the
preventions and treatments for this damaging state of
mind vary dramatically.
- Kendra Cherry
3. Loneliness
- a state of mind
- causes people to feel empty, alone and
unwanted
- Loneliness, according to many experts, is not
necessarily about being alone. Instead, it is
the perception of being alone and isolated
that matters most
4. Causes of Loneliness
• According to research by John Cacioppo, a
University of Chicago psychologist and one of
the top loneliness experts, loneliness is
strongly connected to genetics. Other
contributing factors include situational
variables, such as physical isolation, moving to
a new location and divorce. The death of
someone significant in a person's life can also
lead to feelings of loneliness.
5. Loneliness can also be attributed to internal
factors such as low self-esteem. People who
lack confidence in themselves often believe
that they are unworthy of the attention or
regard of other people. This can lead to
isolation and chronic loneliness.
6. Theories of Loneliness
• Loneliness holds that deficiencies in specific
provisions of social relationships contribute to
specific types of lonely feelings
• Loneliness arises from social skill deficits and
personality traits that impair the formation
and maintenance of social relationships
• Loneliness is aversive, but that is not
necessarily a bad thing.
7. • The quality of the relationship determines the
degree of protection against loneliness.
• Loneliness is associated with
shyness, neuroticism, and depressive
symptoms, as well as low self-
esteem, pessimism, low
conscientiousness, and disagreeableness.
• Some social circumstances are fairly uniformly
associated with an increased tendency toward
loneliness
8. Lonely feelings are typically measured using a
variety of items that assess the degree to which
respondents endorse thoughts and feelings
characteristic of loneliness (e.g., “I feel alone,” “I
lack companionship,” “I do not feel part of a
group of friends”). The result is a continuum in
which the intensity and/or frequency of lonely
feelings can range from very low (i.e., equivalent
to feelings of social connectedness) to very high.
On average, lonely feelings are low to moderate
in the general population with only a relatively
small percentage of individuals experiencing
intense lonely feelings at any given time. When
asked simply whether or not they are currently
feeling lonely, approximately twenty percent of
the population will respond affirmatively.
