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Psychology and Psychotechnics
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Gizatullina, A. G. Old People’s Loneliness: Social and Psychological Aspects

Abstract: Influence of social and psychological factors on the process of personal aging leads to the breakdown of habitual social and psychological connections and relations of an old person which, eventually, causes social deprivation having a negative impact on personality. In most cases this effect gets even worse in situations of physical and psychological loneliness which is quite typical for old aged people. The given article contains the results of the author’s research of loneliness of elderly people and their features from the point of view of gender, age and individual differences.


Keywords:

psychology, loneliness, aging, elderly years, old age, anxiety, depression, social and psychological aspects, social deprivation, psychological loneliness.


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