目标:研究人口历史事件中的孤独感和社会隔离可能会揭示有关年龄差异的重要理论问题,包括这些差异是否存在于不同的地区,以及事件展开的时间过程。我们使用了一个系统的,4项研究(总N=1,307;总观察值=18,492)的协调数据分析(CDA)的预先注册方法在设计上有所不同(密集重复测量和横截面),区域,定时,和COVID-19大流行第一年的时间尺度。
方法:我们将我们的数据集统一到2020-2021年的一个共同时期,并创建了一组共同的变量。我们使用了普通最小二乘回归和多水平建模的组合来解决在社会孤立和孤独之间的关联中存在人与人之间差异的程度,以及这些关联是否随着年龄的变化而变化。
结果:在一项研究中,社交互动的人与人之间的影响与孤独呈负相关;在后续敏感性分析中,这些模式在大流行的早期和后期都保持不变。在所有数据集中,没有证据表明社会交往和孤独感的人内或人之间关联存在年龄差异.
结论:应用CDA方法学框架使我们能够发现样本中社会互动和孤独感的共同和不同模式,年龄,regions,perments,和研究设计。
OBJECTIVE: Examining loneliness and social isolation during population-wide historical events may shed light on important theoretical questions about age differences, including whether these differences hold across different regions and the timecourse of the unfolding event. We used a systematic, preregistered approach of coordinated data analysis (CDA) of four studies (total N = 1,307; total observations = 18,492) that varied in design (intensive repeated-measures and cross-sectional), region, timing, and timescale during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
METHODS: We harmonized our datasets to a common period within 2020-2021 and created a common set of variables. We used a combination of ordinary least squares regression and multilevel modeling to address the extent to which there was within- and between-person variation in the associations between social isolation and loneliness, and whether these associations varied as a function of age.
RESULTS: Within- and between-person effects of social interactions were negatively associated with loneliness in one study; in follow-up sensitivity analyses, these patterns held across early and later pandemic periods. Across all datasets, there was no evidence of age differences in the within-person or between-person associations of social interactions and loneliness.
CONCLUSIONS: Applying the CDA methodological framework allowed us to detect common and divergent patterns of social interactions and loneliness across samples, ages, regions, periods, and study designs.