Research Report: Dyadic Loneliness in Marriage

Abstract

For years, a professor in Colorado has asked his first-year students, many of whom are away from home and family for the first time, to write a paper on loneliness, as he too was required to do when he was an undergraduate in California. Those papers have accumulated now for decades, slowly filling drawers and finally file cases with the weight of student descriptions of their despair. One student who was asked to do that was Raymond Ross, and the memory of those file cases inspired his graduate research into parental loneliness.