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Record W4413776559 · doi:10.1037/dev0002065

Trajectories of loneliness in Canadian adolescents over the COVID-19 pandemic.

2025· article· en· W4413776559 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Kristi Baerg MacDonald, Karen A. Patte, Scott T. Leatherdale, Julie Aitken Schermer

Bibliographic record

VenueDevelopmental Psychology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicResilience and Mental Health
Canadian institutionsUniversity of WaterlooBrock UniversityWestern University
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchHealth CanadaCanada Research ChairsSick Kids Foundation
KeywordsLonelinessPandemicPsychologyCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Developmental psychologySocial isolationSocial psychologyPsychiatryMedicineVirology

Abstract

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= 5,237, female = 3,166, 80.42% White). For the 2017-2021 cohort, a linear model fit best, while nonlinear models were the best fit for the 2018-2022 and 2019-2023 cohorts. Ratings of loneliness were highest at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic across all three cohorts and stabilized in the years following. Growth mixture models identified groups with differing trajectories of loneliness where lowest loneliness was associated with positive relationship quality of family and friends. Overall, the study demonstrated heterogeneity in loneliness trajectories across time between and within cohorts. The patterns were consistent with increases during COVID-19 lockdowns and a return to typical levels as social restrictions eased. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.327
Threshold uncertainty score0.803

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.060
GPT teacher head0.450
Teacher spread0.390 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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