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Robert J. Coplan is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University and Director of the Pickering Centre for Research in Human Development. Dr. Coplan is co-editor of The Development of Shyness and Social Withdrawal (2010), and Social Development in Childhood and Adolescence: A Contemporary Reader (2011), and a former editor of the journal, Social Development.
Julie C. Bowker is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Her research program focuses on the roles that close interpersonal relationships play in socio-emotional development and psychopathology during late childhood and early adolescence.
List of Contributors viii
Foreword: On Solitude, Withdrawal, and Social Isolation xiiKenneth H. Rubin
Part I Theoretical Perspectives 1
1 All Alone: Multiple Perspectives on the Study of Solitude 3Robert J. Coplan and Julie C. Bowker
2 Studying Withdrawal and Isolation in the Peer Group: Historical Advances in Concepts and Measures 14William M. Bukowski and Marie-Hélène Véronneau
3 An Attachment Perspective on Loneliness 34Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver
4 Shyness and the Electrical Activity of the Brain: On the Interplay between Theory and Method 51Louis A. Schmidt and Vladimir Miskovic
5 The Origins of Solitude: Psychoanalytic Perspectives 71Evangelia Galanaki
6 Experiences of Solitude: Issues of Assessment, Theory, and Culture 90James R. Averill and Louise Sundararajan
Part II Solitude Across the Lifespan 109
7 The Causes and Consequences of "Playing Alone" in Childhood 111Robert J. Coplan and Laura Ooi
8 Peer Rejection in Childhood: Social Groups, Rejection Sensitivity, and Solitude 129Drew Nesdale and Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck
9 Affinity for Aloneness in Adolescence and Preference for Solitude in Childhood: Linking Two Research Traditions 150Luc Goossens
10 Social Withdrawal during Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood 167Julie C. Bowker, Larry J. Nelson, Andrea Markovic, and Stephanie Luster
11 Introversion, Solitude, and Subjective Well-Being 184John M. Zelenski, Karin Sobocko, and Deanna C. Whelan
12 Social Approach and Avoidance Motivations 202Jana Nikitin and Simone Schoch
13 Ostracism and Solitude 224Eric D. Wesselmann, Kipling D. Williams, Dongning Ren, and Andrew H. Hales
14 Social Isolation among Older People 242Elaine Wethington and Karl Pillemer
Part III Solitude Across Contexts 261
15 Anxious Solitude at School 263Heidi Gazelle and Madelynn Druhen Shell
16 Loneliness and Belongingness in the College Years 283Steven R. Asher and Molly Stroud Weeks
17 Single in a Society Preoccupied with Couples 302Bella DePaulo
18 Loneliness and Internet Use 317Yair Amichai-Hamburger and Barry H. Schneider
19 Mindfulness Meditation: Seeking Solitude in Community 335Paul Salmon and Susan Matarese
20 The Restorative Qualities of Being Alone with Nature 351Kalevi Korpela and Henk Staats
Part IV Clinical Perspectives 369
21 Social Anhedonia and Solitude 371Thomas R. Kwapil, Paul J. Silvia, and Neus Barrantes-Vidal
22 Social Anxiety Disorder and Emotional Solitude 391Lynn E. Alden and Karen W. Auyeung
23 Loneliness and Social Isolation in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders 409Connie Kasari and Lindsey Sterling
24 Solitude and Personality Disorders 427Kevin B. Meehan, Kenneth N. Levy, Christina M. Temes, and Jonathan J. Detrixhe
25 The Intersection of Culture and Solitude: The Hikikomori Phenomenon in Japan 445Alan R. Teo, Kyle W. Stufflebam, and Takahiro A. Kato
Part V Disciplinary Perspectives 461
26 A View from Biology: Playing Alone and with Others: A Lesson from Animals 463Elisabetta Palagi
27 A View from Anthropology: Anomie and Urban Solitude 483Leo Coleman
28 A View from Sociology: The Role of Solitude in Transcending Social Crises – New Possibilities for Existential Sociology 499Jack Fong
29 A View from Computer Science: From Solitude to Ambient Sociability – Redefining the Social and Psychological Aspects of Isolation in Online Games 517Nicolas Ducheneaut and Nicholas Yee
30 A View from Political Theory: Desire, Subjectivity, and Pseudo-Solitude 539Matthew H. Bowker
31 A View from Religious Studies: Solitude and Spirituality 557John D. Barbour
Index 573
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