Loneliness and Social Networks |
Thursday Jan 21 2010
Loneliness has been linked to numerous health hazards, including: high blood pressure, obesity, sleep
dysfunction, depression, compromised immunity and Alzheimer's disease and increased risk for cancer. A study published in the 2009 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
found that loneliness, like happiness, can spread through our social networks. The
study, which followed more than 5,000 participants of the famous
Framingham Heart Study for three decades, reported that loneliness and
feelings of social isolation can travel from person to person
throughout a social network up to three degrees of separation.
Researchers mapped out
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
Tagged with: loneliness relationships social_network
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