Within- and between-person associations between social interactions and loneliness: students' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

IF 2.6 3区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Cognition & Emotion Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-25 DOI:10.1080/02699931.2024.2333920
Alyssa K Truong, Gizem Keskin, Jessica P Lougheed
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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic introduced many restrictions to in-person interactions, and remote social interactions may be especially important for managing loneliness when such restrictions are in place. However, it is unclear how social interactions are related to loneliness when in-person interactions are limited. Data were collected between February 2021 and March 2022 from a sample of 581 university students. Participants reported their loneliness and participation in positive in-person or remote social interactions each day for 14 days. Results from dynamic structural equation models showed that participants felt less lonely than they usually felt on the days they engaged in positive remote interactions at the within-person level. Moreover, participants generally felt less lonely when engaging more frequently in remote interactions, but only when in-person interactions were restricted (between-person level). Some of these results varied by changing COVID-19 restrictions. Finally, for participants who felt lonelier in general, the effect of positive in-person and remote interactions on loneliness was less strong. These findings suggest that social interactions may buffer loneliness but are not as impactful for those who experience greater loneliness.

社交互动与孤独感之间的人内和人际关联:COVID-19 大流行期间学生的经历。
COVID-19 大流行给人与人之间的交往带来了许多限制,而远程社交互动对于在这种限制下控制孤独感可能尤为重要。然而,目前还不清楚当人际交往受到限制时,社交互动与孤独感之间的关系。我们在 2021 年 2 月至 2022 年 3 月期间收集了 581 名大学生的样本数据。参与者在 14 天内每天报告自己的孤独感和参与积极的面对面或远程社交互动的情况。动态结构方程模型的结果表明,在参与积极的远程人际交往的日子里,参与者的孤独感低于他们通常的孤独感。此外,当参与者更频繁地参与远程互动时,他们的孤独感普遍较低,但只有在人际互动受到限制时(人际层面)才会如此。其中一些结果因 COVID-19 限制的改变而不同。最后,对于总体上感觉更孤独的参与者来说,积极的人际交往和远程交往对孤独感的影响较小。这些研究结果表明,社交互动可以缓冲孤独感,但对于那些孤独感较强的人来说,社交互动的影响并不明显。
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Cognition & Emotion
Cognition & Emotion PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-
CiteScore
4.90
自引率
7.70%
发文量
90
期刊介绍: Cognition & Emotion is devoted to the study of emotion, especially to those aspects of emotion related to cognitive processes. The journal aims to bring together work on emotion undertaken by researchers in cognitive, social, clinical, and developmental psychology, neuropsychology, and cognitive science. Examples of topics appropriate for the journal include the role of cognitive processes in emotion elicitation, regulation, and expression; the impact of emotion on attention, memory, learning, motivation, judgements, and decisions.
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