Despite the relevance of loneliness to family scholarship, an attempt to integrate various perspectives on loneliness with relevant insights from loneliness research for understanding contemporary families has not yet been made. Although quantitative researchers have developed measures that have been fruitful in broadening insights about loneliness, they have failed to grasp its multidimensional and dynamic nature. Due to a shift in emphasis from lived experiences to correlational variables, loneliness research has been confronted with two particular problems. First, endeavors to refine previous conceptualizations of loneliness have stagnated. Second, research questions are scattered across a variety of disciplines. This article provides an integrated multidisciplinary theory from which it becomes clear that a family focus is of great importance to all disciplines concerned with loneliness, because opportunities for social interaction, relational standards, and sources of loneliness depend on familial and developmental histories and the cultural orientation of the families in which individuals live.

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探索孤独研究的理论景观：跨学科协同作用如何促进进一步的概念化

尽管孤独感与家庭学术相关，但尚未尝试将孤独感的各种观点与孤独感研究的相关见解相结合，以了解当代家庭。尽管定量研究人员制定了在拓宽对孤独感的认识方面卓有成效的措施，但他们未能把握其多维和动态的本质。由于重点从生活经验转向相关变量，孤独感研究面临着两个特殊问题。首先，完善以前对孤独的概念化的努力停滞不前。其次，研究问题分散在多个学科中。