The Social Determinants of Loneliness During COVID-19: Personal, Community, and Societal Predictors and Implications for Treatment

Bower, Marlee; Lauria, Eleisha; Green, Olivia; Smout, Scarlett; Boyle, Julia; Donohoe-Bales, Amarina; Dingle, Genevieve A.; Barrett, Emma; Fearn-Smith, Erin M.; Gournay, Kevin; Teesson, Maree

doi:10.1017/bec.2023.3

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“…In terms of exploring the relationship between perceived control and feelings of loneliness, a greater sense of control leads to less loneliness for nursing home residents (Andrew & Meeks, 2018). At the personal (micro) level, people with a higher level of perceived control over health and life were less likely to suffer loneliness (Bower et al, 2023). Usually, people have the perception of control over their external environment, but some extreme events (e.g., mortality salience caused by COVID-19) will break their sense of control (Liu et al, 2021).…”

Section: Perceived Control Loneliness Anxiety and Fear Appealmentioning

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Rise of Mental Sub-Health Consumers: Examining the Compulsive Buying Behavior in the Post-COVID-19 Era

Huang,

Guo

2023

SAGE Open

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The aftermath of the pandemic may have changes in consumer behaviors and motivations for buying. This study aims to find and prove the underlying psychological factors of compulsive buying behavior under the conditions of social isolation. The structural equation modeling via partial least squares (PLS-SEM) was used to test hypotheses and conduct a multigroup analysis on a sample of 394 consumers ( n = 206 for Utilitarian products, n = 188 for Hedonic products). The empirical findings reveal the significant relationships among perceived scarcity, perceived control, uncertainty, perceived severity through loneliness, anxiety, fear appeal and finally compulsive buying. Besides, the proved moderating effects show a significantly higher impact of anxiety on compulsive buying for those who buy utilitarian products and a significantly stronger impact of fear appeal on compulsive buying for those who buy hedonic products. This study integrates perceptions of the epidemic (perceived scarcity, perceived control, uncertainty, perceived severity) and mental-health factors (loneliness, anxiety, and fear appeal) in consumers’ compulsive buying behavior during the public health emergency period and examines its actual impact, and extends the conceptual framework of compulsive buying by comprehending the theory of fear appeal, including product type as the moderating effect.

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Section: Perceived Control Loneliness Anxiety and Fear Appealmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rise of Mental Sub-Health Consumers: Examining the Compulsive Buying Behavior in the Post-COVID-19 Era

Huang,

Guo

2023

SAGE Open

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The Social Determinants of Loneliness During COVID-19: Personal, Community, and Societal Predictors and Implications for Treatment – CORRIGENDUM

Bower¹,

Lauria²,

Green³

et al. 2023

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Effect of COVID-19 lockdowns on quality-of-life and health services access by socio-economic status in Australia

Feng,

Li,

Kristoffersen

et al. 2024

Health Promotion International

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This study examined changes in physical and mental health quality-of-life and health services access before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic among individuals of lower and higher socio-economic status (SES) in Australia. Difference-in-differences and logistic regression models were undertaken using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey and government data on COVID-19 lockdowns between January 2020 and February 2021. Individuals from higher SES reported larger decreases in mental health quality-of-life scores than those from lower SES after the onset of the pandemic. Those from lower SES reported less disruption with any health services (24.2% vs 30.4%; OR = 0.68; p < 0.001), specifically dental services (8.2% vs 15.4%; OR = 0.51; p < 0.001) and allied health services (5.9% vs 8.5%; OR = 0.60; p < 0.001), compared with those from higher SES. Additional days under lockdown were associated with reduced access to all health services (OR = 1.19). Furthermore, long-term health conditions (higher SES: OR = 1.54) and scores indicative of poorer physical (lower SES: OR = 1.17; higher SES: OR = 1.07) and mental health (lower SES: OR = 1.16; higher SES: OR = 1.12) were associated with increased health services disruption. While individuals from higher SES were more likely than those from lower SES to experience greater relative declines in mental health and increased disruption with health services access, individuals with a greater apparent need for health services, regardless of SES, may have faced inequalities in accessing these services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Social Determinants of Loneliness During COVID-19: Personal, Community, and Societal Predictors and Implications for Treatment

Cited by 3 publications

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Rise of Mental Sub-Health Consumers: Examining the Compulsive Buying Behavior in the Post-COVID-19 Era

Rise of Mental Sub-Health Consumers: Examining the Compulsive Buying Behavior in the Post-COVID-19 Era

The Social Determinants of Loneliness During COVID-19: Personal, Community, and Societal Predictors and Implications for Treatment – CORRIGENDUM

Effect of COVID-19 lockdowns on quality-of-life and health services access by socio-economic status in Australia

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