“It’s a feeling of complete disconnection”: experiences of existential loneliness from youth to older adulthood

Abstract Background Existential loneliness is a feeling which stems from a sense of fundamental separation from others and the world. Although commonly mentioned in the loneliness literature, there is relatively little empirical work on this construct, and existing work tends to focus on older and s...

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Main Authors: Phoebe E. McKenna-Plumley, Rhiannon N. Turner, Keming Yang, Jenny M. Groarke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-11-01
Series:BMC Psychology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01452-4