Belonging Together: Friendship, Hope, and Well-Being Among Young Adults

IF 0.8 4区医学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2022-03-17 DOI:10.1353/pbm.2022.0009

Suzanne Shanahan

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Abstract

ABSTRACT:Preventing and reducing loneliness is crucial to well-being and good health. While long thought to be a problem specific to the elderly or infirm, over the past decade the prevalence of loneliness across age cohorts has become increasingly apparent, and calls for a systematic public health approach to the problem have grown louder. This essay uses Vivek Murthy’s Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World (2020) as a point of departure to explore the value of human connection in general—and friendship in particular—as a means to both abating the pernicious individual and societal impact of loneliness and building a foundation for a renewal of the common good. Friendship as a form of human connection is then applied to understanding and addressing the overlapping mental health challenges of American college students and resettled refugee youth.

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共同归属:年轻人的友谊、希望和幸福

摘要:预防和减少孤独感对幸福和健康至关重要。虽然长期以来被认为是老年人或体弱者特有的问题，但在过去十年中，孤独在各个年龄段的普遍存在变得越来越明显，要求采取系统的公共卫生方法来解决这一问题的呼声也越来越高。本文以Vivek Murthy的《在一起:有时孤独的世界中人际关系的治愈力量》(2020)为出发点，探索人际关系的价值，尤其是友谊，作为一种手段，既可以减轻孤独对个人和社会的有害影响，也可以为共同利益的复兴奠定基础。友谊作为一种人际关系的形式，然后被应用于理解和解决美国大学生和重新安置的难民青年重叠的心理健康挑战。

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Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 医学-科学史与科学哲学

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal whose readers include biologists, physicians, students, and scholars, publishes essays that place important biological or medical subjects in broader scientific, social, or humanistic contexts. These essays span a wide range of subjects, from biomedical topics such as neurobiology, genetics, and evolution, to topics in ethics, history, philosophy, and medical education and practice. The editors encourage an informal style that has literary merit and that preserves the warmth, excitement, and color of the biological and medical sciences.