Sharon Ost-Mor, Dikla Segel-Karpas, Yuval Palgi, Hamama-Raz Yaira, Shacham Mayan, Menachem Ben-Ezra, Lee Greenblatt-Kimron
Positive solitude (PS), the choice of being alone to engage in meaningful inner or physical, spiritual, mental, or cognitive activity/ experience, was recently suggested as a stand-alone phenomenon differentiated from loneliness and negative solitude. As loneliness was previously found to have adverse implications for mental health, the present study examined whether the ability to engage in PS can moderate the harmful effect of loneliness on depressive symptoms. The sample consisted of 520 community-dwelling older adults in Israel aged 68-87 (Mage = 72...
October 6, 2023: International Psychogeriatrics