María Del Carmen Díaz-Mardomingo, Lucía Utrera, Shishir Baliyan, Sara García-Herranz, Juan Carlos Suárez-Falcón, Raquel Rodríguez-Fernández, Patricia Sampedro-Piquero, Azucena Valencia, César Venero
INTRODUCTION: Loneliness is a distressful feeling that can affect mental and physical health, particularly among older adults. Cortisol, the primary hormone of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal axis (HPA-axis), may act as a biological transducer through which loneliness affects health. While most previous studies have evaluated the association between loneliness, as a unidimensional construct, and diurnal cortisol pattern, no research has examined this relationship discriminating between social and emotional loneliness in older adults...
2023: Frontiers in Psychology