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New Studies Show Men's Loneliness is Misunderstood
Created: 18/06/2025
News/Events Category: Health and Social Care
How do you explain what loneliness is? For many it indicates a lack social contact or interaction. But what if this is only part of the picture?
For Loneliness Awareness Week 2025, King's College London shared findings from two studies that looked at what is at the heart of men's loneliness. This has serious ramifications for our understanding of what loneliness is, and why it is experienced.
Men’s mental health is well established as having a distinct character, with notions of masculinity often said to be at the root of the problem. Suicide rates in men continue to be higher than in women, and loneliness can lead to suicidal thoughts. Therefore they wanted to better understand loneliness in men and how it might differ from women’s experiences.
Key findings from the studies include:
- Older men were slightly less likely to score as lonely than older women
- Older men who said they had felt lonely in the past week drank significantly more alcohol than older men who hadn’t felt lonely
- Severely isolated older men were no more likely to record a score of lonely than the rest of the men in the dataset, but severely isolated older women were over 700% more likely to record a score of lonely
- Older men in cohabiting relationships were the least lonely group, whereas older men who were previously married but no longer cohabiting were the most lonely
- Men did not always identify loneliness until after it had occurred
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