Gnevasheva, V.A. (2024) Female happiness or female loneliness: aspects of the definition. Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filosofiya. Sotsiologiya. Politologiya – Tomsk State University Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science. 78. pp. 157–167. (In Russian). doi: 10.17223 ...

Abstract

The study analyzes the problem of social loneliness. The theoretical and methodological base determines the significance of this phenomenon for modern society. In this regard, the issue of gender segregation in determining the factors of increasing social loneliness is extremely acute, since to a greater extent the marital and much less reproductive behavior of women can be associated precisely with the process of avoiding social loneliness as a social phenomenon, which requires clarification. Questions of studying social loneliness are also raised in the context of the need to preserve traditional family constructs. Modern social forms of avoiding social loneliness often form prerequisites for the distortion of family tradition and transform family and social forms of interaction. The article presents assessments of the phenomenon of social loneliness in the minds of women on the basis of a study. Social loneliness is considered in the context of women's marital and reproductive behavior. Concepts “social loneliness” and “happiness are compared within the considered subsample, differentiated by gender. The definitions of the concepts “female happiness” and “index of happiness” are given, a scale of assessments of the happiness index in the interval between two antagonistic terms is given, and the index is calculated for the considered subsample. The results are based on the author's empirical all-Russian study (N = 1075) using methods of econometric analysis of panel data. The results of the study are aimed at finding ways to reduce the risks of the formation of destructive socio-psychological constructs in women's perception of themselves and the world through the prism of social loneliness, and also contribute to the elaboration of recommendations for the development of sustainable family constructs of the traditional type. The author declares no conflicts of interests.