RESLON Lab
RESLON Lab — Research on Daily Dynamics of Loneliness, Isolation, and Reconnection.
RESLON Lab is my flagship substantive/theoretical research line. Earlier RESLON work mapped the nomological network of loneliness and its prospective links with metacognitive beliefs, worry, and common mental health problems.
The current programme builds on that foundation with research on the daily dynamics of loneliness, isolation, and reconnection using a 30-day daily-diary design and dynamic structural equation modelling to test whether “feeling lonely” and “feeling isolated” are empirically dissociable with distinct daily dynamics, consequences, and behavioural correlates, social withdrawal, reconnection, and digital versus in-person contact. See Publications for forthcoming papers from this line.
Looking further ahead, the lab also plans to extend into large-scale genetic studies (e.g., genome-wide association studies) and intranasal oxytocin trials.
Anyan, Frederick.; Hjemdal, Odin. (2021). Loneliness in social relationships: Mapping the nomological network of loneliness with key conceptual domains and theoretical constructs. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Anyan, Frederick.; Morote, Roxanna.; Hjemdal, Odin. (2020). Prospective relations between loneliness in different relationships, metacognitive beliefs, worry and common mental health problems. Mental Health & Prevention.
Anyan, F., Gjævran, S. M., Nordahl, H., Hjemdal, O., & Kennair, L. E. O. Loneliness through an evolutionary lens: Within-person temporal dynamics with social withdrawal and social reconnection in daily life. Nordic Psychology.
Anyan, F., Gjævran, S. M., & Aboagye, E. Separating the feeling of loneliness and social isolation: A two-step within- and between-person test of dissociation and consequence.
Anyan, F., & Aboagye, E. Does feeling isolated track actual social contact more closely than feeling lonely? A dynamic structural equation test of two subjective indicators of daily contact deficit.
Anyan, F., & Aboagye, E. Does feeling isolated drive the same withdrawal-without-reconnection cycle as feeling lonely? A replication-by-substitution test in daily life.
Anyan, F., & Aboagye, E. Digital contact, direct contact, and the daily experience of loneliness and social isolation: A dynamic structural equation analysis of competing predictors.