Nearly half of Millennials and Gen Zers say they often feel isolated even when surrounded by friends — both real and virtual.
by the global health service company Cigna. Nearly half of the 20,000 adults surveyed last year reported sometimes or always feeling alone or left out . Generation Z and millennials rated themselves highest on feelings associated with loneliness.
“They’ve been surrounded by conversation their whole lives, so when that silence happens, they have a hard time just being in it and they take it that there’s something wrong,” Fallik said. Daniel Russell, a professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State University, said the conflict between how many close friends you’d like to have and how many fewer you actually have may create feelings of loneliness and social isolation. A current study he’s working on about the relationship between social support and loneliness includes a review of 200 studies and suggests the quality of the relationships may be more significant than the quantity.
“What struck me about the Cigna data is they weren’t finding very strong relationships [between loneliness and social media] either — that it was not statistically significant with 20,000 participants,” he said. “It’s a super-transient city,” said Elliot Meade, 27, who moved in August from New York City to work in finance.
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