Why a key finding about the loneliness epidemic may be overblown
in America: Changes in core discussion networks over two decades,” Miller McPherson and his colleagues claimed that in 2004, one out of every four Americans had no one they talked to about matters important to them. That was a dramatic drop from twenty years before; in 1985, only one in ten said they had no one to talk to about important matters in the previous six months.
Scholars such as Barry Wellman and Claude Fischer have long expressed skepticism about the findings. So far, though, the public has remained mostly unaware of those critiques or just not persuaded by them. Friends: “If you had a problem with which you needed help, how much help would you expect to get from friends?”Most of the help neededThe questions posed in this study were not identical to the ones in the study that got so much.
The number of Americans, in 2011, who thought they could get none of the help they needed, from family or friends, was just 4.4%. That is a strikingly lower number than the 25% from the McPherson study who said they had no one they could confide in.Women believe they can get more help from their family than men do. Although women’s friendships seem to get more attention and respect than men’s, it is the men who think they can get more help from their friends.
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