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There are many things you have led to believe will happen as you get older. And while some are almost some of happening - you will have at least some gray hair and you may not be able to burn midnight oil as if you used it in your early years - many others aremore myth than the truth. A big who falls in the last category isThe misconception that as you get older, you will grow too. In fact, according toNew massive study on solitudeYou are likely to find the opposite exact is true.

Using data from theExperience of the loneliness of BBC, the largest study of the world on the subject, the researchers of the U.K. Statements to consider whether and how culture, age and sex affect loneliness, that they have defined as "the divergence between real and desired social relations". Published in the newspaperPersonality and individual differences, the study revealed that despite the popular perception that people feel lonely as the aging, loneliness is indeed much more likely todecrease with age.

"Contrary to what people can expect, loneliness is not a difficult situation for the elderly. In fact, younger people report more feelings of solitude"Manuela Barreto, Professor of the University of Exeter in U.K. and co-author of the study, saidMedical News Today.

To reach this conclusion, researchers analyzed the information and answers of 46,054 people aged 16 to 99, representing 237 different countries, islands and territories. They asked the participants questions, like ", do you feel a lack of company?" And "do you feel in keeping with people around you?"

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Why people are more likely to undergo less intense or frequent feelings of loneliness as they get older, Barreto citedChange the expectations This often comes with aging as a key factor.

"Since loneliness stems from the meaning that social connections are not as good as desired, this could be due to the different expectations of younger and older people," she says. Barreto also noted that "the age model we discovered seems to contain many countries and cultures".

Not only has the study found that loneliness is more likely to affect individuals in their younger years, but the question was probably even more worrying for this demography during the course of therecent pandemic.

"Although it is true that younger people are better able to use technology to access social relations, it is also known that when it is being replaced, rather than an extension of these relationships,He does not diminish loneliness, "Says Barreto. And to learn more about the isolated sensation can affect your well-being, check15 subtle signs Your loneliness hurts your health.