{"id":29437,"date":"2025-10-06T15:47:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fhse-en\/?post_type=events&#038;p=29437"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:54:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:54:31","slug":"underreporting-loneliness-the-role-of-gender-health-partner-status-and-migration-background","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fhse-en\/events\/underreporting-loneliness-the-role-of-gender-health-partner-status-and-migration-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Underreporting loneliness:\u00a0The role of gender, health, partner status, and migration background"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"institute-for-lifespan-development-family-and-culture-ldfc-research-colloquium\"\n    >\nInstitute for Lifespan Development, Family, and Culture (LDFC) Research Colloquium<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Previous research suggests that people belonging to social categories not typically associated with loneliness are less likely to admit feeling lonely. Drawing upon this research, we hypothesized that men, those in good health, partnered individuals, and migrants are less likely to admit feeling lonely because they are less socially expected to be lonely. Using data from Dutch, Moroccan, and Turkish individuals aged between 55 and 66 years in the Netherlands (N = 1,383), we examined this by assessing respondents\u2019 reported loneliness on direct measurements of loneliness while controlling for an indirect measurement of loneliness. Findings showed that men, those in good health, and partnered individuals were less likely to admit feeling lonely when asked directly than women, those in poor health, and single individuals. We also found that migrants were less likely to admit loneliness on the direct measurement than non-migrants, but only when they had a high score on the indirect measurement of loneliness. 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