“…A distinction can be made between emotional loneliness, the feeling of missing an intimate relationship, and social loneliness, the feeling of missing a wider social network (Weiss, 1973). The distinction was later confirmed by studies that have shown that social and emotional loneliness were only moderately correlated (Dahlberg & McKee, 2014), were present in latent class analyses (Hyland et al, 2018), and were differently associated with risk factors and a variety of physical and mental health outcomes (Brandts et al, 2020;Dahlberg & McKee, 2014;Diehl et al, 2018;Hyland et al, 2018;McHugh Power et al, 2018;Nieboer et al, 2020;OʼSúilleabháin et al, 2019;Peerenboom et al, 2015). Regarding risk factors, social loneliness has been associated with, e.g., low physical activity, immigrant background, and male gender (Dahlberg & McKee, 2014;Diehl et al, 2018), while emotional loneliness has been associated with, e.g., not being in a committed relationship, neuroticism and non-receipt of informal care (Dahlberg & McKee, 2014;Diehl et al, 2018;Nieboer et al, 2020;Peerenboom et al, 2015).…”