Loneliness and mental health in a representative sample of community-dwelling Spanish older adults

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 277-292

  Losada, Andrés ^a   Márquez González, Mara ^b   García Ortiz, Luis ^c   Gómez Marcos, Manuel Angel ^d   Fernández Fernández, Virginia ^a   Rodrguez Sánchez, Emiliano ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Biomedical Research Institute of Salamanca IBSAL   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

aging; loneliness; mental health; prevalence; representative

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SPAIN;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LONELINESS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SPAIN;

EID: 84859167111     PISSN: 00223980     EISSN: 19401019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2011.582523     Document Type: Article

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