The Handbook of Loneliness / edited by Todd Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Todd.

Series:

Behavioral Science and Psychology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychology.

Social Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Social Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1027 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

The problem of loneliness has increased dramatically over the last 25 years. Loneliness presents a threat to the mental, emotional, and even physical well-being of the lonely individual. This statement is borne out in much research, and the alarming threat that loneliness presents is such that the U.S. Surgeon General issued an 82-page advisory in 2023 on what he called an “epidemic” of loneliness. Here in this Handbook of Loneliness, are gathered experts on loneliness from all over the world, in multiple disciplines, in which they discuss the results of their research and that of their colleagues on a wide range of topics related to understanding loneliness. The Springer Handbook of Loneliness is an invaluable reference for anyone seeking a wide-ranging, deeper understanding of the causes and effects of loneliness, and how loneliness can be reduced.

Contents:

Part I. Theoretical Perspectives

Chapter 1. Subjective Disconnection: An Attachment Perspective

Chapter 2. The Evolutionary Theory of Loneliness

Part II. Assessing and Measuring Loneliness

Chapter 3. The Measurement of Loneliness: An Obituary (and How to Move On)

Chapter 4. Disciplinary and Methodological Pluralism in Loneliness Studies

Part III. Personality and Loneliness

Chapter 5. Pathological narcissism and loneliness

Chapter 6. Loneliness and Dark Personality

Part IV. Covid-19 and Loneliness

Chapter 7. Impact of COVID-19 Policy Stringency and Lockdown on Loneliness

Chapter 8. Loneliness before and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Part V. Economic and Political Impact of Loneliness

Chapter 9. Financial Inclusion and Loneliness in Old Age: An Overview and Some Empirical Evidence from Ghana

Chapter 10. Connecting the Dots: Perceived Organizational Politics, Green Creativity, and the Experience of Workplace Loneliness

Chapter 11. Loneliness and Political Behavior

Part VI. Genetics of Loneliness

Chapter 12. Disrupted sociocognitive neural responses in loneliness

Chapter 13. Behavior Genetic Analysis of Loneliness

Part VII. Physiological Effects of Loneliness

Chapter 14. Loneliness and Health

Chapter 15. The Endocrinology of Loneliness and Social Isolation

Chapter 16. The link between loneliness and social isolation with inflammation

Chapter 17. Biological Pathways Linking Loneliness to Physical Health

Part VIII. Effects of Loneliness on Mental Health

Chapter 18. The Stigma Associated with Loneliness: What it is, why we Care, and What we Can do About it

Chapter 19. Loneliness Among Adults with Serious Mental Illness

Chapter 20. Aggression and loneliness

Chapter 21. Loneliness: Coping & Flourishing

Part IX. Loneliness in Specific Groups

Chapter 22. Loneliness among LGBTQ+ communities

Part X. Influence of Social Media on Loneliness

Chapter 23. Loneliness and social media use: do motives for using social media matter?

Chapter 24. Together and yet apart. The phubbing and loneliness

Chapter 25. A Psychological Perspective on the Complex Interplay Between Loneliness and Cyberbullying

Part XI. Loneliness Across Cultures

Chapter 26. What makes us (less) lonely across the globe? Causes and remedies for loneliness in different cultures

Part XII. Loneliness Over the Lifespan

Chapter 27. Owner of a Lonely Mind: Loneliness and Theory of Mind in Adolescents

Chapter 28. Loneliness at the End of Life

Chapter 29. Loneliness and Risk of Dementia: Moderators, Mediators, and Future Directions

Chapter 30. Loneliness in Older Veterans

Part XIII. Interventions to Reduce Loneliness

Chapter 31. A Social Cure for Loneliness

Chapter 32. Interventions for Social Isolation and Loneliness in Later Life: Considering the Needs of Family Caregivers

Part XIV. Epilogue

Chapter 33. Epilogue and future directions for loneliness research.

ISBN:

3-032-02959-7

9783032029591