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Late-life loneliness in 11 european countries: results from the generations and gender survey

Hansen, Thomas; Slagsvold, Britt
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Postprint version of published article. the final publication is available at springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-1111-6
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https://hdl.handle.net/10642/2882
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2015-09-29
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Hansen, T. & Slagsvold, B. (2015). Late-life loneliness in 11 european countries: results from the generations and gender survey. Social Indicators Research, 124(1), 1-20   http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-1111-6
Abstract
This study explores country differences in late-life loneliness in Europe among men and women and establishes the role of micro-level differences in socioeconomic status, health, and social variables in these patterns. We use cross-sectional, nationally representative data from the Generations and Gender Survey. The analysis comprises 33,832 Europeans aged 60– 80 from 11 countries. A six-item short version of the de Jong-Gierveld Scale is used to measure loneliness, yet we employ a different method of calculating loneliness scores than in prior work. Findings show considerable between-country heterogeneity in late-life loneliness, especially among women. The rate of a quite severe level of loneliness is 30–55 percent among men and women in Eastern Europe, compared with 10–20 percent among their peers in Western and Northern Europe. Loneliness is strongly associated with lower socioeconomic status, poorer health, and not having a partner. More than half of the country variance in loneliness is mediated by health, partnership status, and socioeconomic disparities across countries. Differences in societal wealth and welfare and cultural norms may account for some of the unexplained country variance in loneliness
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Springer
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Social Indicators Research;124(1)

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