Fig. 4: Across nine countries, the benefits of possessing positive beliefs about being alone increase the more time people spend alone.
From: How people think about being alone shapes their experience of loneliness
In two mega-analyses across a total of nine countries spanning six continents, the buffering effect of positive beliefs about being alone on loneliness increases the more time people spend alone. A Mega-analytic results from Study 4 (combined data from U.S. and Japan). C Mega-analytic results from Study 5 (combined data from Brazil, South Africa, U.K., Mexico, Spain, Australia, and Poland). A–C Positive/negative beliefs represent one SD above/below the mean on beliefs about being alone. B–D Panels present the raw values for individual samples, where positive/negative beliefs represent the top 25% and bottom 25% of beliefs about being alone scores. A–D Data are presented as regression slope +/− 1 SE. Note. Some countries in Study 5 do not have data for high values of time spent alone (e.g., 7) because no one in the sample reported spending that much time alone.
