The Definition of Social Loneliness and Social Well-Being of Russian Women
https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2023-11-1-62-72
Abstract
The study is dedicated to the study of the problem of social loneliness. The theoretical and methodological base determines the significance of this phenomenon for modern society. In this regard, the issue of gender segregation in determining the factors of increasing social loneliness is extremely acute, since to a greater extent the marital and much less reproductive behavior of women can be associated precisely with the process of avoiding social loneliness as a social phenomenon, which requires clarification of these factors of the demographic development of society. Questions of studying social loneliness are also raised in the context of the need to preserve traditional family constructs. Modern social forms of avoiding social loneliness often form prerequisites for the distortion of family tradition and transform family and social forms of interaction. The article presents assessments of the phenomenon of social loneliness in the minds of women on the basis of a study. Social loneliness is considered in the context of women’s marital and reproductive behavior. At the same time, a comparison is made of the concepts of “social loneliness” and “happiness” within the considered subsample, differentiated by gender. The definitions of the concepts of “female happiness” and “index of happiness” are given, a scale of assessments of the happiness index in the interval between two antagonistic terms is given, and the index is calculated for the considered subsample. The results are based on the author’s empirical all-Russian research conducted in the spring of 2022 (N=2500, in the gender distribution, the sample population of women was 43% – 1075 people). The sample was defined as continuous, random, and at the last stage nested, since only one gender group was taken within the framework of this article – women. The results of the study are aimed at finding ways to reduce the risks of the formation of destructive socio-psychological constructs in women’s perception of themselves and the world through the prism of social loneliness, and also contribute to the development of recommendations for the development of sustainable family constructs of the traditional type.
Keywords
social loneliness,
family,
women,
reproductive and marital behavior,
female happiness,
happiness index
Supporting agencies: The article was prepared within the framework of the grant of the Russian Science Foundation (RNF) No. 22-28-01980: Social loneliness: modeling of new family constructs.
About the Author
V. A. Gnevasheva
Institute for Demographic Research – Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IDR FCTAS RAS)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Gnevasheva Vera Anatolyevna – DSc (Econ.), Associate Professor, Chief Researcher
117218, Russia, Moscow, Krzhizhanovsky str., 24/35
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Gnevasheva V.A. The Definition of Social Loneliness and Social Well-Being of Russian Women. Communicology. 2023;11(1):62-72. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2023-11-1-62-72
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