{"id":32455,"date":"2022-09-10T16:10:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/gen-z-is-loneliest-generation-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:10:16","slug":"gen-z-is-loneliest-generation-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/gen-z-is-loneliest-generation-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Z is Loneliest Generation, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-5660\">Patryk Sobczak photo &#8211; Unsplash<\/div>\n<p><em>By Lisa Cannon Green<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nobody is lonelier than Generation Z.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the surprising conclusion of a new study that finds younger generations\u2014across the board\u2014are lonelier than older ones.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, students have higher loneliness scores than retirees, and the least lonely Americans are 72 and older, health insurer Cigna found in its online survey of more than 20,000 U.S. adults.<\/p>\n<p>Loneliness isn\u2019t just an emotion\u2014it\u2019s a health issue, Cigna says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoneliness has the same impact on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, making it even more dangerous than obesity,\u201d wrote Douglas Nemecek, Cigna\u2019s chief medical officer for behavioral health, in a report on the survey results.<\/p>\n<div class='code-block code-block-1' style='margin: 8px 0;clear: both'> <\/div>\n<p>Gen Zers apparently are feeling those ill effects: In addition to being the loneliest, they claim to be in worse health than older generations.<\/p>\n<p>Among the young adults of Generation Z, who are 18 to 22 years old:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>69 percent say they feel people are around them but not really with them.<\/li>\n<li>69 percent report feeling shy.<\/li>\n<li>68 percent say they feel no one really knows them well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They\u2019re also more likely than their elders to report feeling left out, alone, and isolated from others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, more than half of Gen Zers identify with 10 of the 11 feelings associated with loneliness,\u201d says the report on the study, which used the well-known UCLA Loneliness Scale.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Z ends up with an overall \u201cloneliness score\u201d well above the national average. Here\u2019s how the generations compare:<\/p>\n<p> <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Age range<\/strong><strong>Loneliness score<\/strong>Generation Z18-2248.3Millennials23-3745.3Generation X38-5145.1<em>National average<\/em><em>All ages<\/em><em>44<\/em>Baby boomers52-7142.4Greatest Generation72 and older38.6 <\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>A life in balance<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The young adults of Generation Z may be constantly online\u2014but their loneliness isn\u2019t the fault of social media, Cigna\u2019s study shows.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;margin-top:0em;margin-bottom:1em\">\n<div class=\"centered-text-area\">\n<div class=\"centered-text\" style=\"float: left\">\n<div class=\"u7ccc762c1b0bda673b9cdba72e10deb3-content\">See also&nbsp; 8 Ways to Persevere in Ministry<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ctaButton\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The study found no correlation between social media use and feelings of loneliness. Very heavy users of social media scored about the same on the loneliness scale as those who never use it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLevels of in-person interactions, physical and mental wellness, and life balance are more likely to predict loneliness than social media usage,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<p>Balance in all areas seems to be key to lessening loneliness, the researchers found.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep, exercise, work, and time with family are all related to being less lonely\u2014if they\u2019re in the right amounts, the study says. Getting too much or too little of any of these things is linked to greater loneliness.<\/p>\n<p>Good health is also important. Those who rank their health as fair or poor are more likely to be lonely than those who say they are healthier.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their age, members of the Greatest Generation\u2014those 72 and older\u2014are the most likely to rate their health highly, while those in Generation Z are least likely to do so.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#32373c\" class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-profile-box square gb-has-avatar gb-font-size-18 gb-block-profile gb-profile-columns\">\n<div class=\"gb-profile-column gb-profile-avatar-wrap\">\n<div class=\"gb-profile-image-wrap\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gb-profile-column gb-profile-content-wrap\">\n<h2 class=\"gb-profile-name\" style=\"color:#32373c\">Lisa Green<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gb-profile-title\" style=\"color:#32373c\"><strong>@lisacgreen<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"gb-profile-text\">\n<p>Lisa is a former senior editor at Lifeway Research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"gb-social-links\"><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-thumbnails'>\n<h3>Related posts:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"yarpp-thumbnails-horizontal\">  What Do Pastors Believe About the End Times?  What Do Pastors Believe About the Book of Revelation?  3 Ways to Reach Non-Religious People in Your Community <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patryk Sobczak photo &#8211; Unsplash By Lisa Cannon Green Nobody is lonelier than Generation Z. That\u2019s the surprising conclusion of a new study that finds younger generations\u2014across the board\u2014are lonelier than older ones. In fact, students have higher loneliness scores than retirees, and the least lonely Americans are 72 and older, health insurer Cigna found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/gen-z-is-loneliest-generation-study-finds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gen Z is Loneliest Generation, Study Finds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}