Sources of Loneliness for Older Adults in the Czech Republic and Strategies for Coping With Loneliness
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F23%3A00134452" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/23:00134452 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/6185/6185" target="_blank" >https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/6185/6185</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i1.6185" target="_blank" >10.17645/si.v11i1.6185</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Sources of Loneliness for Older Adults in the Czech Republic and Strategies for Coping With Loneliness
Original language description
In this article, issues of loneliness and exclusion from social relations in old age are examined from the perspective of older men and women. Our focus is on sources of loneliness they themselves perceive and what strategies they use to cope with it. Twenty‐nine interviews with older adults at risk of loneliness in the Czech Republic and their models of social convoys are analyzed. Surprisingly small gender differences in feelings of loneliness are found. A major source of loneliness for both men and women is the loss of a life partner. Perceptions of loneliness and the shape of social networks differ substantially in the case of lifelong singles and childless people. A second significant source for feelings of loneliness includes unsatisfactory relationships with close family. Based on the participants’ accounts, three strategies for coping with loneliness are identified.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/TJ03000002" target="_blank" >TJ03000002: A life course perspective on the GENdered PATHways of exclusion from social relations in later life, and its consequences for health and wellbeing.</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Social Inclusion
ISSN
2183-2803
e-ISSN
2183-2803
Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
PT - PORTUGAL
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
225-233
UT code for WoS article
000946780800003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85151483868