The Norwegian National Centre for Ageing and Health, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway.
Department of Geriatric Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Int J Aging Hum Dev. 2024 Jan;98(1):103-132. doi: 10.1177/00914150231194243. Epub 2023 Aug 10.
Evidence suggests that in old age, women are lonelier than men. Gender differences in loneliness are often explained by gender differences in longevity, social status and loss, health, and mobility-well-established predictors that may influence loneliness differently in "younger" (40-59 years) and "older" (60-80 years) groups of men and women in the second part of life. This study explores loneliness in men and women ages 40 to 80 years at baseline over a 15-year period using panel data from three waves of the Norwegian Life Course, Ageing and Generation Study (N = 2,315). Our analyses show that women were more lonely than men also in adjusted analyses. Logistic regression analyses indicated that loss of a partner and poor mental health are prospectively related to loneliness among men and women, whereas other factors like becoming a partner, stable singlehood, and poor physical health were related to loneliness among women but not men.
有证据表明，老年人中女性比男性更孤独。性别在孤独感上的差异通常可以用寿命、社会地位和丧失、健康和流动性方面的性别差异来解释，这些都是既定的预测因素，它们可能会以不同的方式影响“年轻”（40-59 岁）和“年老”（60-80 岁）人群中男性和女性的孤独感。本研究使用挪威生活历程、老龄化和代际研究（N=2315）的三个波次的面板数据，在 15 年的时间跨度内，探究了 40 至 80 岁年龄段男性和女性的孤独感。我们的分析表明，即使在调整分析中，女性也比男性更孤独。逻辑回归分析表明，失去伴侣和心理健康状况不佳与男性和女性的孤独感呈前瞻性相关，而成为伴侣、稳定的单身状态和身体不健康等其他因素与女性的孤独感相关，但与男性无关。
