Cette participation à cette métaphore est vue comme une expérience d'être habité par une représentation d'un tout comme moyen de gérer la souffrance associée à ce sentiment de solitude. abstract ...Taking as fheir jumping-off point the words of Sébastien Dupont describing the feeling of loneliness as an idiom of distress related to the principle of individualization of our Western culture, the authors wonder about the frequency of this feeling in a culture that has never provided so many means of not being alone. En observant le fonctionnement global de notre société, nous sommes étonnés d'entendre et de constater des souffrances et des plaintes relatives à un sentiment de solitude alors que nous vivons dans une société qui n'a jamais offert autant de possibilités de ne pas être seuls. Cet individu développe alors une forte propension à se déduire de lui-même, (autonomie = tirer ses lois de l'auto) et non plus de son rôle. Et comme nous sommes dans des moments d'égalité, il en est de même pour l'autre qui peut à tout instant quitter, abandonner et m'abandonner. L'on perçoit de suite que l'autonomie installe une précarité du lien - l'autre ne me sécurise plus - et en l'absence d'un tiers organisateur (hétéronomique), la distance entre deux êtres n'est pas régulée, l'autre devenant vite une menace, racine d'un sentiment paranoïde.
Social isolation is a potent determinant of poor health, as such its effect on people with learning disabilities needs to be better understood and this will help inform the practice of learning ...disability nurses in reducing health inequalities. A survey by Learning Disability Alliance Scotland explored experiences of isolation and loneliness among more than 200 people.
The present paper aims to analyze – both from a quantitative and a qualitative perspective – the impact of social relationships over health and longevity in contemporary society. Today human ...interaction is more and more facile thanks to the new technology development. However, despite this facility, many Western countries face the “loneliness epidemic”. Individual-centered cultures promote the atomizing of society to the detriment of strong and quality social relations. Insufficient social relationships and so much the more loneliness and social isolation - according to the psycho-social studies of Holt-Lunstad a.o. - negatively affect health state and significantly increase the risk of premature death. The impact of this risk is so serious that it surpasses the risks posed by most health indicators (food, exercise, etc.). In other words, the absence of social relationships and loneliness are enemies of health and longevity. The present paper aims to comparatively analyze the types of social relationships which one can find in the so-called “blue zones” (where it has been noticed that people have the highest longevity on Earth) in comparison with the Western ones. We intend to identify the differences between ,, the territories of longevity ‘' and Western world concerning the lifestyle, the frequency and quality of social relationships. What type of social relationships encourages a positive attitude towards life, gives life meaning, reduced risk-taking, sustain health and longevity.? In the conditions of recording - in Romania after 1989 - of a lack of frequency and quality of social relations with the consequences, the present paper wants to draw an alarm signal both for the governors and for the governors.
The aims of the study were to examine the predictive value of social and emotional loneliness for all-cause mortality in the oldest-old who do and do not live alone and to test whether these varied ...by functional status and personality.
Participants were 413 older adults from the Berlin Aging Study (M SD = 84.53 8.61 years of age) who either lived alone (n = 253) or did not live alone (n = 160). Significance values for hazard ratios are reported having adjusted for age, sex, education, income, marital status, depressive illness, and both social and emotional loneliness.
Although social loneliness was not associated with mortality in those living alone, emotional loneliness was; with each 1 SD increase in emotional loneliness, there was an 18.6% increased risk of all-cause mortality in the fully adjusted model (HR = 1.186, p = .029). No associations emerged for social or emotional loneliness among those not living alone. Examinations of potential moderators revealed that with each 1 SD increase in functional status, the risk associated with emotional loneliness for all-cause mortality increased by 17.9% (hazard ratiointeraction = 1.179, p = .005) in those living alone. No interaction between personality traits with loneliness emerged.
Emotional loneliness is associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality in older adults who live alone. Functional status was identified as one potential pathway accounting for the adverse consequences of loneliness. Emotional loneliness that can arise out of the loss or absence of a close emotional attachment figure seems to be the toxic component of loneliness.
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