The Study of loneliness

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The study of Loneliness

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To start off, I need to ask you some questions, are you lonely? Do you feel alone? Did you know that you can be lonely without even feeling it? Well a recent studies have been made by The University of Arizona about the relationship between being lonely and alone

The study, lead by Alex Danvers, states that you can be alone without the negative side effect of being lonely. Where the problem lies, is when a person spends approximately 75% of their time alone. The experiment for the results was done by first monitoring two groups of people using a smartphone app called EAR (Electronically Activated Recorder). What this app does is record participants' noise every 12 minutes for 30 seconds so it can observe the social behaviors of a person. This being said the group with 66% alone time felt less lonely then the 75% alone time. Makes sense right however, they also deduced that loneliness and aloneness differentiate between a person's age.


To start, younger individuals perceive the two concepts as separate ideas. For example, a younger person can feel lonely when sounded in a social setting but completely fine when alone. On the other hand, research on older people the age of 67 believe them to be heavily intertwined and needing social interaction to in order to not be lonely.


As of now, there will be an app being developed to track a person's social interaction by measuring the length of a conversation called Socialbit. The program is meant for stroke victims who are recovering in isolation, and will let them know when they have been alone for to long.


Before we end this off, I ask you to please look after yourself and talk to someone, or even check on a loved one who you may not have reached out to in a long time. Although people of different ages view the two concepts differently, no one should feel lonely.

Comments

  1. Ross KNovember 26, 2023 at 11:03 PM

    This is a very real blog, and I really appreciate you bringing light to this issue. I can feel lonely even being surrounded by 100 people, with social media we never are alone, but we are. I find this very interesting and will look Into that app, thanks for sharing.

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  2. Dalilah KreugerNovember 30, 2023 at 10:39 AM

    I love this blog because it tells me that I am not alone in feeling the way that I do sometimes. Being alone too much is what causes me to have negative and harmful thoughts. However sometime these thoughts also happen when I am surrounded by people.

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