Category: Life and LifeStyle

Impact of Online Learning Experience During COVID-19: Exploring the Relationship Between Academic Resilience, Academic Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Social Support The COVID-19 pandemic, one of the worst global health crises of this century, has dramatically transformed the lives, functioning, and behaviors of university stu-dents. After Singapore went into lockdown on April 7, 2020, universities were forced…

Life satisfaction is a cognitive evaluation of an individual’s overall life status; in other words, it is an estimation of how much an individual likes his life (Erikson, 1980). The concept of life satisfaction denotes the overall evaluation of life, which contrasts with the “subjective well-being” in response to a person’s current feelings or specific…

Below, we briefly consider what we have learned thus far about loneliness in terms of key implications from an applied perspective. There is a clear need for loneliness prevention, and Crowe and associates (2022), among others, have emphasized the key role of the public health system; they outlined myriad ways of proactively addressing loneliness and…

What internal thoughts reflect unbearable loneliness? We are conducting a line of investigation centered on the premise that loneliness is accompanied by distress due to the tendency to experience frequent automatic thoughts about being and feeling lonely. That is, extreme loneliness can reflect an internal world reflecting Sadler’s (1978) contention that loneliness is an intensely…

Our focus in the current chapter on unbearable loneliness stems from the realization that there is an extreme form of loneliness, which is felt as truly unbearable and is the type of loneliness that is not receiving sufficient attention in terms of research, practice, and prevention. We propose that it is essential that we begin…

When a construct is linked broadly with various mental health problems and associ-ated interpersonal problems, as is the case with loneliness, it is safe to assume a role for the self, in terms of its content, structure, and cognitive processing. We maintain that focus on the self and identity should be the starting point when…

Loneliness is a negative emotional experience resulting from a discrepancy between “one’s desired and achieved levels of social relations” (Perlman & Peplau, 1981, p. 32). Loneliness is tied more closely to the quality of social interaction and exchanges rather than the frequency or amount of social interaction (Cacioppo & Hawkley, 2009). One does not have…

Do you suffer from loneliness? If so, the good news is you are far from alone. It is generally recognized that there is a global epidemic of loneliness (see Killeen, 1998; Murthy, 2020), and the main contentious issue here is whether loneliness is an epidemic or a pandemic. Estimates vary considerably as a function of…