The Effect of Gender and Culture on Loneliness: A Mini Review

Ami Rokach (Ph.D, Psychology Department, York University, Canada. The Center for Academic Studies, Israel)

Emerging Science Journal
Vol 2, No 2 (2018): April

Loneliness is an experience determined by a person’s characteristics, her situational variables, gender, and background.  This review article describes the myriad of studies, with sometimes contradictory results about the relation of loneliness to gender [with women commonly expressing, though not necessarily experiencing, greater loneliness], and the relation between loneliness and collectivistic and individualistic culture.