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FReDA Policy BriefLoneliness: Especially younger people are feeling increasingly lonely

In the last five years, the feeling of loneliness has increased in Germany. Today, one in three people between the ages of 18 and 53 feels lonely at least some of the time – including many younger people under 30, as new BiB analyses show.

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Peer-Reviewed Articles in Scientific JournalsSocial Media and Its Role in Friendship-driven Interactions among Young People: A Mixed Methods Study

Décieux, Jean Philippe Pierre; Heinen, Andreas; Willems, Helmut (2019)

YOUNG, 27(1): 18–31

DOI: 10.1177/1103308818755516

This article examines trends and developments in social interactions of young people and the role of social media in Luxembourg using a mixed method approach, drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data. Our findings corroborate that social interactions via social media play a growing role in leisure time of young people and have changed the traditional patterns of friendship-driven social interactions among peers. We argue that although offline interactions remain very important for young people, they have been complemented and partially replaced by interactions via social media. Modes of young people’s social media interactions can be characterized as mixed modalities.

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