What allays loneliness? A fine-grained examination of daily social interactions

Silva, Gabriella; Rum, Ruba; Brennan, Justine; Rottenberg, Jonathan; Goodman, Fallon R.

doi:10.1177/02654075231181709

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“…This consideration becomes particularly salient in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has disrupted social interactions and in-person gatherings, which are important for maintaining meaningful connections and alleviating loneliness (Silva et al, 2023). These findings highlight the importance of considering the differential impact of positive and negative coping on loneliness.…”

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Coping Style as a Mediator in the Associations between Dispositional Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Loneliness

Xie¹

2023

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Mindfulness and self-compassion have the potential to alleviate loneliness, a significant public health concern. To maximize the impact of mindfulness and self-compassion on loneliness, it is essential to understand the mechanisms underlying their effects. The current cross-sectional study aimed to explore the mediating role of coping style in the relationships between mindfulness, self-compassion, and loneliness. Participants (n = 453) were recruited from the general population through social network platforms in China. Participants completed an online survey including measures of demographic information, dispositional mindfulness, self-compassion, coping style, and loneliness. Correlation analyses revealed that mindfulness and self-compassion both had significantly negative associations with loneliness; negative coping was positively correlated with loneliness, while positive coping was not significantly associated with loneliness; mindfulness and self-compassion were positively related to positive coping and negatively associated with negative coping. Furthermore, mediation analyses showed that negative coping significantly mediated the effects of mindfulness and self-compassion on loneliness while controlling for demographic variables. These findings suggest that negative coping may serve as a potential mechanism linking mindfulness and self-compassion to loneliness. If future longitudinal and experimental research confirms the mediating effect of negative coping, mindfulness and self-compassion interventions can address negative coping to optimize their effects on loneliness.

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Coping Style as a Mediator in the Associations between Dispositional Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Loneliness

Xie¹

2023

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“…Affective variability has been demonstrated to unfold over brief time scales within-person (Kuppens, 2015;Kuppens et al, 2010). Likewise, SM use and one's experiences can fluctuate over brief periods of time (Hamilton, Hutchinson, et al, 2023) and these fluctuations have been linked to changes in sleep (Hamilton et al, 2020), loneliness (Silva et al, 2023), and social connectedness (Armstrong-Carter et al, 2023). However, there is a lack of research examining whether fluctuations in SM experiences predict changes in affect, particularly while capturing the dynamic nature of both constructs.…”

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Momentary associations between emotional responses to social media and affect: Consistency across global affect and specific emotional states

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Jorgensen

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Social media (SM) is widely used among adolescents, making the relationship between SM and affect in this population important to understand. However, previous research has largely used methods that do not capture the dynamic and variable nature of SM or measure the consistency of effects across global affect and specific emotions. The current study examined the momentary relationship between positive and negative SM experiences and global positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA), as well as specific affective states of PA and NA. Adolescents (N = 62; 14-17 years old) were recruited from SM platforms to participate in an eight-week ecological momentary assessment study. Participants reported three times per day on PA and NA and positive and negative SM experiences. Random intercept and random slope models were used to examine within-person associations between momentary positive and negative SM experiences and affect after controlling for between-person differences. At prompts when participants reported greater-than-usual positive SM experiences, they reported higher global PA and lower global NA. At prompts when participants reported greater than their average negative SM experiences, they endorsed lower global PA and higher global NA. These results were consistent across same-valence specific affective states. The current study highlights proximal associations between SM experiences and affect, highlighting potential avenues of short-term risk and protection.

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“…Of these eligible participants, 326 participants completed the baseline survey. For additional details about original data collection, see Silva et al (2023).…”

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Social anxiety and interpersonal risk for suicidal ideation: A longitudinal daily diary analysis

Brown,

Rottenberg,

Goodman

2023

Suicide & Life Threat Behav

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IntroductionSocial anxiety is associated with elevated suicidal ideation (SI). One potential explanation is that socially anxious persons experience frequent interpersonal stressors that elicit SI. Longitudinal designs with temporal ordering are needed to adequately test this hypothesis. Therefore, this study leveraged a longitudinal design combining trait and daily reports.MethodsTwo hundred eleven community adult participants with elevated levels of depression and/or social anxiety completed social anxiety and SI measures at baseline and again at a 1.5‐month follow‐up. Between these assessments, participants completed a 14‐day diary study that assessed three forms of interpersonal distress: unfavorable social comparisons, perceived barriers to seeking social support, and loneliness.ResultsAs predicted, simple mediation models revealed that baseline social anxiety had a significant indirect effect on SI severity at 1.5 months postbaseline via unfavorable social comparisons (indirect effect: β = 0.07, p < 0.05) and barriers to seeking support (indirect effect: β = 0.08, p < 0.05); however, social anxiety did not have a significant indirect effect on SI severity through loneliness.ConclusionStudy results are consistent with the proposition that increases in interpersonal distress may explain socially anxious persons' vulnerability to SI. Implications of these findings for the research, assessment, and treatment of suicidality in social anxiety are discussed.

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What allays loneliness? A fine-grained examination of daily social interactions

Cited by 6 publications

References 93 publications

Coping Style as a Mediator in the Associations between Dispositional Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Loneliness

Coping Style as a Mediator in the Associations between Dispositional Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Loneliness

Momentary associations between emotional responses to social media and affect: Consistency across global affect and specific emotional states

Social anxiety and interpersonal risk for suicidal ideation: A longitudinal daily diary analysis

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