Belonging Together: Friendship, Hope, and Well-Being Among Young Adults.
Perspect Biol Med
; 65(1): 143-156, 2022.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2319190
ABSTRACT
Preventing and reducing loneliness is crucial to well-being and good health. While long thought to be a problem specific to the elderly or infirm, over the past decade the prevalence of loneliness across age cohorts has become increasingly apparent, and calls for a systematic public health approach to the problem have grown louder. This essay uses Vivek Murthy's Together The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World (2020) as a point of departure to explore the value of human connection in general-and friendship in particular-as a means to both abating the pernicious individual and societal impact of loneliness and building a foundation for a renewal of the common good. Friendship as a form of human connection is then applied to understanding and addressing the overlapping mental health challenges of American college students and resettled refugee youth.
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Mental Health
/
Friends
/
Hope
/
Loneliness
Type of study:
Cohort study
/
Observational study
/
Prognostic study
/
Qualitative research
/
Systematic review/Meta Analysis
Limits:
Adolescent
/
Adult
/
Aged
/
Humans
/
Young adult
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
Perspect Biol Med
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Similar
MEDLINE
...
LILACS
LIS