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标题：El sentimiento de soledad en la vejez
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作者：Juan López Doblas ; María del Pilar Díaz Conde
期刊名称：Revista Internacional de Sociología
印刷版ISSN：1988-429X
出版年度：2018
卷号：76
期号：1
页码：085
语种：Spanish
出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：Our purpose is to look into one of the social problems affecting the most to older people, namely the feeling of loneliness. We intend to approach this problem differentiating its social and emotional dimensions. Through a qualitative methodological strategy ?focus groups as procedure to raise data and Grounded Theory as analytical perspective? we study how that feeling is experienced among a profile of older persons particularly affected by loneliness: older widowed persons living alone. Our findings prove that these persons suffer from emotional loneliness, especially those who enter widowhood at a later age and after decades of marriage. This feeling is linked to the loss of their spouse and it is at night when it is more likely to emerge. Moreover, widowhood comes along with the risk of social loneliness because of the relational distancing from friends who used to be connected to the married couple. We have identified as well gender differences regarding the impact of loneliness, being men those who are especially frail to confront it.