Problem-focused and emotion-focused coping options and loneliness: how are they related?

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Eric Schoenmakers, Theo van Tilburg, Tineke Fokkema]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
European Journal of Ageing, 12/2(2015-06-01), 153-161
Format:
Artikel (online)
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520 3 |a We examine the extent to which coping options endorsed by older adults help alleviate loneliness, and experiences with loneliness influence the coping options. Two ways of coping are distinguished: problem-focused, i.e., improving one's relationships, and emotion-focused, i.e., lowering one's expectations about relationships. Loneliness is assessed using three observations over 6years among 1,033 61- to 99-year-old respondents in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam. Combining the first two observations yielded four loneliness types: not lonely at T0 and T1, recently lonely, persistently lonely, and recovered from loneliness. Between the second and third observations, respondents were asked to evaluate which coping options lonely peers described in various vignettes had. From this, individual coping scores were calculated. The option to improve relationships did not affect the likelihood of one's own loneliness, and the option to lower expectations even increased it. Compared to non-lonely respondents, recently lonely ones endorsed both ways of coping equally frequently, persistently lonely ones endorsed improving relationships less frequently and lowering expectations more frequently and recovered respondents endorsed improving relationships equally frequently and lowering expectations more frequently. We conclude that considering various ways of coping does not help alleviate loneliness and that persistently lonely and recovered respondents are at risk of a circular process with loneliness experiences resulting in considering lowering expectations more frequently, which results in a greater likelihood of loneliness, thus contributing to sustaining or re-establishing loneliness. 
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690 7 |a Loneliness  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Coping  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Older adults  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Structural equation modeling  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Schoenmakers  |D Eric  |u Department of Applied Gerontology, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Ds. Th. Fliednerstraat 2, 5631 BN, Eindhoven, The Netherlands  |4 aut 
700 1 |a van Tilburg  |D Theo  |u Department of Sociology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Fokkema  |D Tineke  |u Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands  |4 aut 
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