Loneliness

Published Research & Citations

IndoPsyCare endeavours to continue conducting research into the latest evidence-based psychological treatments and remain up-to-date on psychological phenomena and breakthroughs.

We are proud to present the research conducted, or contributed to, by our advisors and IndoPsyCare psychologists. We seek to emphasize that whilst members of our team have contributed to these papers, we do not claim rights nor ownership of these publications.

• Gollwitzer, A., Wilczynska, M., & Jaya, E. S. (2018). Targeting the link between loneliness and paranoia via an interventionist-causal model framework. Psychiatry Research, 263, 101–107. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.02.050

  Abstract:
  “Background: Tested an interventionist-causal model of the link between loneliness and paranoia, investigating whether regulating negative affect attenuates paranoid ideation provoked by social isolation.
  
  Findings: Experimentally recollecting companionship reduced paranoia in paranoia-prone individuals, while recalling loneliness increased paranoia via negative affect. Crucially, applying cognitive reappraisal successfully mitigated the loneliness-to-paranoia pathway.
  
  Conclusion: Cognitive reappraisal and emotion regulation techniques effectively disrupt the causal bridge connecting loneliness to paranoid beliefs, offering practical therapeutic interventions.”



• Jaya, E. S.*, Hillmann, T., Klaus, M. R., Gollwitzer, A., & Lincoln, T. M. (2016). Loneliness and psychotic symptoms: The mediating role of depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 41(1), 106–116. doi: 10.1007/s10608-016-9799-4

  Abstract:
  “Background: Investigated whether loneliness drives positive psychotic symptoms and whether this relationship is mediated by depressive affective states in a large cross-sectional sample.
  
  Findings: Loneliness strongly correlated with paranoia and hallucinations. Mediation analysis revealed that depressive symptomatology accounted for the majority of the variance linking loneliness to psychotic symptoms.
  
  Conclusion: Depressive mood is a primary affective mechanism through which perceived social isolation triggers psychotic-like phenomena, indicating that alleviating loneliness and depression reduces psychosis vulnerability.”