At What Ages Do People Feel Most Lonely?

ACCORDING TO A US STUDY PUBLISHED in the journal Psychological Science, loneliness follows a U-shaped pattern in adulthood people are loneliest during younger and older adulthood, and least lonely in middle age.

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This conclusion was based on a review of data from nine long-term studies including 1,28,118 adults of ages 13 to 103 years from over 20 countries. All the studies showed the U-shaped curve.