Childhood circumstances and personality traits are associated with loneliness in older age

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Childhood circumstances and personality traits are associated with loneliness in older age

Life circumstances during childhood—including having fewer friends and siblings, low-quality relationships with parents, bad health and growing up in a poorer household—are all correlated with a higher rate of loneliness in older age, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Sophie Guthmuller of Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.

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