Literature Database
Comprehensive database of research literature on solitude and gerotranscendence in healthy aging, organized by source.
Solitude Research
PubMed/PMC Articles
- How We Experience Being Alone: Age Differences in Affective and Biological Correlates of Momentary Solitude
- Alone with my phone? Examining beliefs about solitude and technology use in adolescence
- Alternating time spent on social interactions and solitude in healthy older adults
- Are you alone? Measuring solitude in childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood
- Better Off Alone: Daily Solitude Is Associated With Lower Negative Affect in More Conflictual Social Networks
- Association Between Social Isolation and Smoking in Japan and England
- Developmental resources and depression in the elderly
- The Convoy Model and Later-Life Family Relationships
- Social relationship quality buffers negative affective correlates of everyday solitude in an adult lifespan and an older adult sample
- Social Partners and Momentary Affect in the Oldest-Old: The Presence of Others Benefits Affect Depending on Who We Are and Who We Are With
- How people think about being alone shapes their experience of loneliness
- Solitude can be good-If you see it as such: Reappraisal helps lonely people experience solitude more positively
- Solitude as an Approach to Affective Self-Regulation
ScienceDirect Articles
- A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains
- Individual Differences in Preference for Solitude
- Seeking more solitude: Conceptualization, assessment, and implications of aloneliness
Springer Nature Articles
- Positive Solitude Scale: Theoretical Background, Development and Validation
- A Measure of Subjective Happiness: Preliminary Reliability and Construct Validation
Sage Journals Articles
APA PsycNet Articles
- Deconstructing solitude and its links to well‐being
- Social isolation, loneliness, and solitude in older adulthood
Gerotranscendence Research
PubMed/PMC Articles
- Self-transcendence: conceptualization and measurement
- The self-transcendence scale: an investigation of the factor structure among nursing home patients
- A Review on Research and Evaluation Methods for Investigating Self-Transcendence
- Association between psychological resilience and all-cause mortality in the Health and Retirement Study
- Self-transcendence and life stories of humanistic growth among late-midlife adults
- Ten-Year Course of Cosmic Transcendence in Older Adults in the Netherlands
- The Epidemiology of Social Isolation: National Health and Aging Trends Study
- How to Promote Gerotranscendence in Older Adults? A Scoping Review of Interventions
- Toward a nursing theory of self-transcendence: deductive reformulation using developmental theories
ScienceDirect Articles
Sage Journals Articles
Nursology Articles
NIH/NLM/NCBI Books Articles
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