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Loneliness matters: a theoretical and empirical review of consequences and mechanisms.
Perceived social isolation makes me sad: 5-year cross-lagged analyses of loneliness and depressive symptomatology in the Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study.
Loneliness predicts increased blood pressure: 5-year cross-lagged analyses in middle-aged and older adults.
Loneliness impairs daytime functioning but not sleep duration.
Job insecurity and change over time in health among older men and women.
Perceived social isolation and cognition.
Loneliness predicts reduced physical activity: cross-sectional & longitudinal analyses.
From social structural factors to perceptions of relationship quality and loneliness: the Chicago health, aging, and social relations study.
Spirituality and autonomic cardiac control.
Cardiac autonomic balance versus cardiac regulatory capacity.
Compliance with ambulatory saliva sampling in the chicago health, aging, and social relations study and associations with social support.
Psychosocial and behavioral predictors of inflammation in middle-aged and older adults: the Chicago health, aging, and social relations study.
Loneliness is a unique predictor of age-related differences in systolic blood pressure.
Loneliness as a specific risk factor for depressive symptoms: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.
Genetic and environmental contributions to loneliness in adults: the Netherlands twin register study.
How can I connect with thee? Let me count the ways.
Social isolation and health, with an emphasis on underlying mechanisms.
Loneliness in everyday life: cardiovascular activity, psychosocial context, and health behaviors.
Loneliness and pathways to disease.
Cardiovascular and endocrine reactivity in older females: intertask consistency.
Do lonely days invade the nights? Potential social modulation of sleep efficiency.
Loneliness and health: potential mechanisms.
Lonely traits and concomitant physiological processes: the MacArthur social neuroscience studies.
Autonomic, neuroendocrine, and immune responses to psychological stress: the reactivity hypothesis.
Responses to ostracism across adulthood.
Social isolation.
Social neuroscience: The social brain, oxytocin, and health.
A marginal structural model analysis for loneliness: implications for intervention trials and clinical practice.