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SUBMITTER: Barreto M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7768187 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barreto Manuela M Victor Christina C Hammond Claudia C Eccles Alice A Richins Matt T MT Qualter Pamela P
Personality and individual differences 20210201
The BBC Loneliness Experiment provided a unique opportunity to examine differences in the experience of lonelines across cultures, age, and gender, and the interaction between these factors. Using those data, we analysed the frequency of loneliness reported by 46,054 participants aged 16-99 years, living across 237 countries, islands, and territories, representing the full range of individualism-collectivism cultures, as defined by Hofstede (1997). Findings showed that loneliness increased with ...[more]