Doctoral Dissertation Research: When Social Isolation Leads to Loneliness

博士论文研究：当社会孤立导致孤独时

• 批准号: 1904061
• 负责人: Long Doan
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-01 至 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1904061&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; When; Social

In this project, the situational factors that intensify or inhibit feelings of loneliness while alone are investigated and individual differences (e.g., introversion) that modify this process are identified. Despite the significant effect loneliness can have on health, there is still much that is unknown about its causes. Specifically, little is known about when social isolation will (and will not) evoke feelings of loneliness. For example, throughout the day, people typically move in and out of social isolation--perhaps an individual eats breakfast with his or her partner and then drives to work, alone. It is unclear from existing research if we should expect this person to feel any lonelier during this solitary drive than he or she felt while eating. Identifying the situational and individual risk-factors for loneliness may have wide-ranging benefits. This project has the potential to advance national health and welfare by indicating how people can maximize the benefit of their social behavior, as well as by strengthening behavioral interventions to reduce feelings of loneliness.For this project, data will be collected from approximately 700 participants sampled from a demographically diverse group of online workers. Each participant will complete a survey and multiple time diaries using a web-based platform. In the time diaries, participants will report about their daily experiences in chunks of time oriented around "activities" (e.g., sleeping, driving to work, eating lunch) and they will record other information regarding these blocks of time (e.g., who they were with and the emotions they experienced). This time diary will capture moments of social isolation, feelings of loneliness during such isolation, and the contextual details expected to intensify or inhibit feelings of loneliness. The importance of these contextual details will be identified via appropriate statistical analyses.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在这个项目中，研究了在独处时加剧或抑制孤独感的情境因素，并确定了改变这一过程的个体差异（如内向）。尽管孤独会对健康产生重大影响，但其原因仍有很多未知之处。具体来说，人们对社交孤立何时会（或不会）引起孤独感知之甚少。例如，在一天中，人们通常会进出社会隔离——也许一个人和他或她的伴侣一起吃早餐，然后独自开车去上班。从现有的研究中还不清楚，我们是否应该期望这个人在这种孤独的驾驶中比他或她在吃饭时感到更孤独。确定孤独感的情境和个人风险因素可能会带来广泛的好处。这个项目有可能通过指出人们如何能够最大限度地从他们的社会行为中获益，以及通过加强行为干预来减少孤独感，来促进国家的健康和福利。在这个项目中，将从一个人口统计学上多样化的在线工作者群体中抽取大约700名参与者的数据。每位参与者将使用基于网络的平台完成一份调查和多份时间日志。在时间日记中，参与者将根据“活动”（例如，睡觉，开车上班，吃午饭）的大块时间报告他们的日常经历，他们将记录与这些时间块有关的其他信息（例如，他们和谁在一起以及他们经历的情绪）。这个时间日记将捕捉社会隔离的时刻，这种隔离期间的孤独感，以及期望加强或抑制孤独感的背景细节。将通过适当的统计分析确定这些上下文细节的重要性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。