Baerg MacDonald Kristi, Schermer Julie Aitken
Department of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
J Community Psychol. 2025 Sep;53(7):e70042. doi: 10.1002/jcop.70042.
The purpose of this study was to examine how loneliness relates to community size, participation and attitudes. We conducted two studies using three large-scale Canadian datasets (total N = 20,071). Community size was determined by census postal code areas, and loneliness, community participation and attitudes were evaluated by self-report ratings. In each cross-sectional study, we use correlations, multiple regression and one-way ANOVA analyses to evaluate the relationship of loneliness to urban-rural communities, group participation and ratings of connection and belongingness. In both studies, lower loneliness was predicted by higher feelings of connection in one's community. People who participated in groups were also less lonely, but the relationship was weak. Only Study 2 results showed a pattern of relationship between loneliness and urban/rural categories; participants living in urban communities identified higher loneliness. Attitudes about community connection are important predictors of loneliness where more physical variables of participation and size have a much smaller relationship. Measurement limitations and community characteristics are discussed.
本研究的目的是探讨孤独感与社区规模、参与度及态度之间的关系。我们使用三个加拿大大型数据集（样本总量N = 20,071）进行了两项研究。社区规模由人口普查邮政编码区域确定，孤独感、社区参与度和态度通过自我报告评分进行评估。在每项横断面研究中，我们使用相关性分析、多元回归分析和单因素方差分析来评估孤独感与城乡社区、群体参与以及联系和归属感评分之间的关系。在两项研究中，社区中更高的联系感预示着更低的孤独感。参与群体活动的人也较少感到孤独，但这种关系较弱。只有研究2的结果显示了孤独感与城乡类别之间的关系模式；居住在城市社区的参与者孤独感更高。关于社区联系的态度是孤独感的重要预测因素，而更多参与度和规模的实体变量与之关系较小。文中讨论了测量局限性和社区特征。
