Social Consequences Of Social Isolation

Throughout a person’s lifetime, it is virtually impossible to avoid social encounters. Humans are social animals, and one’s growth is dependent on other human beings. Newborns and young children rely extensively on the supervision of others, knowledge is acquired via social observation and learning from other people, well-being and happiness are promoted by connecting with other individuals, and so on. Sociality is a dominant force. Studies have shown that the consequences of social isolation can be considered equivalent to that of everyday smoking. This paper will be exploring less severe effects that can be attributed to social exclusion: loneliness and lowered self-esteem, on which an observation and a relevant empirical evidence will be provided. Initially, I was particularly fascinated by the impact of sociality on
At first, me and my friends thought that she was only behaving this way because of the increased responsibilities and assignments in university, but she even denied going to trips with us in the summer. Additionally, she often expresses how lonely she feels on social networking sites (e.g. Facebook or Twitter) or posts depressing pictures. For instance, she once posted a picture of a quote that says “What If I’m Never Good Enough for Anyone?”. From my interpretation, the reason for her constant lonely and sad feelings resulted, in part, from her insecurity. Subsequently from the observation, I have found a research paper that is related to the topic in question. The objective of the study was to examine whether social anxiety and loneliness were positively correlated, and that social anxiety and self-esteem were negatively correlated. The hypothesis was that, if an individual is found to be highly socially anxious, he or she would also experience a higher level of lonely feelings as well as a lower level of