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It’s also important to mention that the correlations between social media use and wellbeing are not generally comparable across countries and time.

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A careful analysis of survey data reveals that, yes, there is a correlation between social media and well-being; but the relationship works both ways. As we explain later, today’s adolescents in the US do not seem to be more likely to report feeling lonely than adolescents from a couple of decades ago; and similarly, today’s older adults in the US do not report higher loneliness than older adults in the past. One of the first analyses of patent citations in the context of knowledge spillovers was done by Adam Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg and Rebecca Henderson, in a much-cited paper published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 1993. The magazine The Economist wrote an article in 2018 with the title “Loneliness is a serious public-health problem”. Two years later, Amy Orben, Tobias Dienlin and Andrew Przybylski published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences using a similar source of data.Then, for each of these two groups, I plotted the share who reported being ‘very happy’ or ‘quite happy’. On the other hand, there seems to be an indirect association pushing in the opposite direction, whereby loneliness increases with age, because our health deteriorates and we lose relatives and friends. People are more likely to live alone today than in the past partly because they are increasingly able to do so. With China driving air travel growth, we expect hub connectivity to Hong Kong, currently undergoing unprecedented growth, driven by mainline operators (Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon) will undoubtedly see further evolution.

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Internet – For many, the internet is now essential for work, finding information, and connecting with others. That said, some readers may be surprised to learn that other nations around the world have even faster speeds. This lowers the costs of creating and maintaining personal and professional ties, which facilitates the diffusion of ideas and knowledge, creating positive productivity spillovers. For the US and Canada there are long-run time series from census data that let us directly track the share of people who live alone.

This means that the probability that an inventor builds on the work of another inventor in a different part of the country can be partly explained by how well-connected their social backgrounds are, even after controlling for geographic distance and other demographic factors. Amy Orben and Andrew Przybylski published a paper earlier this year in the journal Nature where they illustrated that given the flexibility to analyze the data (i. In England, the Office for National Statistics conducts the Community Life Survey, in which they ask about living arrangements and loneliness. As technology becomes more advanced and networks are improved, these numbers are expected to continue to grow. The emphasis on painful is there to make a clear distinction between solitude – the state of being alone – and subjective loneliness, which is the distressing feeling that comes from unmet expectations of the types of interpersonal relationships we wish to have.

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In Sweden, repeated cross-sectional surveys with adults aged 85, 90, and 95 years old, found no increase in loneliness over a ten-year interval. Asia-Pacific notably also accounts for eight of the 10 busiest international routes in the world, according to OAG’s Punctuality League published earlier this year. As we explain in a companion post, spending time alone is not a good predictor of whether people feel lonely, or have weaker social support.

In the chart I show this comparison: The green points correspond to happiness among those who interact with friends at least once per month; while the blue dots correspond to happiness among those who interact with friends less often. But to the extent that loneliness is a subjective experience, these cross-country differences are still important to understand well-being. In the fourth wave (1999-2004) the WVS asked respondents hundreds of questions about their lives, including whether they were part of social or religious groups, how often they spent time with friends, and whether they felt happy with their life. There was very little difference in self-reported loneliness of people born in different generations. Social relations might be the missing link: In rich countries, where minimum material living conditions are often satisfied, people may struggle to become happier because they are targeting material rather than social goals.

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In England, the Office for National Statistics conducts the Community Life Survey, in which they ask people how often they feel lonely. Successfully striving for happiness: Socially engaged pursuits predict increases in life satisfaction. The options for happiness, on the other hand, included ‘very happy’, ‘quite happy’, ‘not very happy’ and ‘not at all happy’. People who get divorced, for example, often report a short-term drop in life satisfaction; but over time they tend to recover and eventually end up being more satisfied with their life than shortly before they divorced (you can read more about this in our entry on happiness and life satisfaction). The most common source of data are surveys where people are asked about different aspects of their lives, including whether they live alone, how much time they spend with other people in a given window of time (e.

This chart shows that in almost all countries, people who often spend time with their friends report to be happier than those who spend less time with friends. Heathrow Airport was followed by Chicago O’Hare in second, Frankfurt Airport in third, Amsterdam’s Schiphol in fourth and Toronto Pearson in fifth. Even the studies linking loneliness and genetics can be subject to this omitted-variable bias, because a genetic predisposition to loneliness may drive both loneliness and health outcomes. Social connections – including contact with friends and family – are important for our health and emotional well-being.