Projecting loneliness into the past and future: implications for self-esteem and affect

Teneva, Nadya; Lemay, Edward P.

doi:10.1007/s11031-020-09842-6

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“…Loneliness is one of the indicators of decrease in well-being (Cacioppo & Cacioppo, 2018;Cacioppo & Patrick, 2008). Research has shown that it not only affects individuals' current well-being, but is also reflected in the biased memories of social exclusion in the past and in thoughts regarding the future (Teneva, & Lemay, 2020). Lonely people may experience lower selfesteem and negative affect, and this aversive experience may distort their cognition, affecting how they construe their futures, which may independently contribute to negative outcomes and reduced hope.…”

Section: Loneliness and Hopeful Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Perceived social support, loneliness, and hope during the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Testing a mediating model in the UK, USA, and Israel

Bareket‐Bojmel

Shahar

Abu-Kaf

et al. 2021

British J Clinic Psychol

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Objectives. The COVID-19 epidemic is affecting the entire world and hence provides an opportunity examine how people from different countries engage in hopeful thinking. The aim of this study was to examine the potentially facilitating role of perceived social support visa -vis hope as well as the mediating role of loneliness between perceived social support and hope. This mediating model was tested concurrently in the UK, the USA, and Israel. Methods. In April 2020, as the first wave of the virus struck the three aforementioned countries, we assessed perceived social support, loneliness, and hope in 400 adults per country (N = 1,200). Assessments in the UK/USA were conducted via the Prolific platform, whereas in Israel they were conducted via Facebook/WhatsApp. Results. In all three countries, perceived social support predicted elevated hope, although the effect was smallest in the UK. Loneliness mediated this effect in all three countries, although full mediation was attained only in the UK. Conclusions. Perceived social support may facilitate hope in dire times, possibly through the reduction of loneliness. Practitioner Points Findings are consistent with respect to the potentially protective role of perceived social support vis-avis hope. Perceived social support may increase hope through decreasing loneliness. In the UK, the above-noted mediating effect of loneliness appears to be stronger than in Israel and the USA. Elevated levels of perceived social support should serve as a desired outcome in individual and group psychotherapy, as well as in community based interventions.

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Section: Loneliness and Hopeful Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Loneliness is a subjective experience that reflects a threat to one's need to be in close relationships (Teneva & Lemay, 2020). It is the feeling of being without company and is thought to disrupt social integration and increase psychological isolation.…”

Section: Loneliness and Hopeful Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceived social support, loneliness, and hope during the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Testing a mediating model in the UK, USA, and Israel

Bareket‐Bojmel

Shahar

Abu-Kaf

et al. 2021

British J Clinic Psychol

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“…We integrated the Truth and Bias Model (West & Kenny, 2011) with prior assessments of memory bias (Chang et al, 2018; Chang & Overall, 2021; Teneva & Lemay, 2020) using the MIXED function in SPSS 25 to model the repeated weekly assessments. Memories of relationship quality the prior week were regressed on (1) participants' actual evaluations of relationship quality the prior week, which represents the benchmark to assess bias and accuracy, as well as (2) relationship quality the current week, which ensures any assessment of accuracy and bias are independent of current relationship quality (see West & Kenny, 2011).…”

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“…The importance of monitoring changes in relationship quality should motivate people to accurately track past changes in their relationship evaluations (Fletcher & Kerr, 2010). This type of tracking accuracy involves comparing individuals' memories of relationship quality at prior time points to the relationship quality they actually reported at those prior time points (e.g., Chang et al, 2018; Chang & Overall, 2021; Teneva & Lemay, 2020; Zygar‐Hoffmann & Schönbrodt, 2020). The diagnostic value of relationship quality should mean that people, on average, show greater tracking accuracy in remembering the relative ups and downs in relationship quality across the recent past.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To test these links, we asked participants to report the quality of their relationship each week for 7 weeks as well as how they remembered their relationship quality the prior week. Applying current statistical methods designed to assess accuracy and bias (West & Kenny, 2011; also see Chang et al, 2018; Chang & Overall, 2021; Teneva & Lemay, 2020), we used participants' actual evaluations of relationship quality reported in prior weeks as the benchmark to assess whether participants accurately tracked the relative ups and downs of their prior relationship quality (tracking accuracy) as well as remembered relationship to be higher or lower than actually reported on prior weeks (directional bias). We expected that attachment anxiety would be associated with greater accuracy in tracking changes in prior relationship quality as well as greater directional bias involving remembering weeks of low relationship quality to be more negative than they actually were.…”

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Attachment anxiety, tracking accuracy, and biased memory of prior relationship evaluations

Chang

Overall

2022

Personal Relationships

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Affinity to mnemonic features of social media: Antecedent and consequences

Mookherjee

Mohanty

Mukherjee

2023

J of Consumer Behaviour

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This research explores consumer loneliness and its resulting preference for mnemonic features as the psychological antecedents of social media use and studies its consequence on consumer behavior. To test our hypotheses, we conducted a survey with a large sample (N = 1307) and analyzed the data using PLS structural equation modeling method. We show that individuals with higher (vs. lower) feelings of loneliness show a lower (vs. higher) affinity to mnemonic features of social media platforms, making them more likely to use Snapchat (vs. Facebook). This effect persists after controlling for demographic factors (such as age and gender) and other known motivations behind social media choice. These two groups of social media users also exhibit different types of consumer behavior resulting from their underlying affinity to mnemonic features. Snapchat users tend to be more variety‐seeking and prefer newer brands (vs. established brands) than Facebook users. Our research contributes to the literature on the adoption of social media platforms by studying an important individual difference variable and integrating the concept of mnemonic features of social media as a key driving factor in that choice. The findings can give managers essential insights into the usership of social media platforms and help them select the right platform for their social media campaigns.

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Projecting loneliness into the past and future: implications for self-esteem and affect

Cited by 31 publications

References 72 publications

Perceived social support, loneliness, and hope during the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Testing a mediating model in the UK, USA, and Israel

Perceived social support, loneliness, and hope during the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Testing a mediating model in the UK, USA, and Israel

Attachment anxiety, tracking accuracy, and biased memory of prior relationship evaluations

Affinity to mnemonic features of social media: Antecedent and consequences

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