Does loneliness increase the severity of depressive symptoms? A longitudinal analysis using data from the Understanding Society Panel Study 2017-2021.
Seifert, N. · Das Gesundheitswesen · 2022 · Heft 8/09 · S. 1 bis 1
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Einleitung Loneliness is considered one of the most important risk factors for depression. Socio-cognitive models of loneliness assume that loneliness is related to the risk of depression through cognitive biases in all stages of information processing. As a result, lonely people tend to engage in behaviours that elicit negative responses in others that confirm and reinforce these cognitive biases, which are thought to set off a cascade of behavioural, affective, and biological processes that increase the risk of depression. Other explanations, such as the stress generation in depression thesis, emphasize the im…