Here are the key differences between social isolation and loneliness—and why being alone may be worse for our health than feeling alone
," a common correlate of loneliness that is nevertheless a separate and distinct state. Loneliness is generally defined as ”the discrepancy between a person's preferred and actual level of social contact.” It is a subjective, qualitative self-perception.
Disentangling the effects of social isolation and loneliness is useful not just because it improves our understanding of each, but also because it addresses a more general question about the effects of subjective experience vs. those of objective conditions. “It’s not how old you feel, it’s how old you are,” my father, an 85-year-old retired farmer, likes to say, exemplifying this latter"facts first" view. Psychologists, however, often lean in the opposite direction, opting to consider subjective factors as more important than objective conditions.
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