Unravelling the complexity of the relationship between social support sources and loneliness: A mixed-methods study with older adults

Esteban Sánchez-Moreno; Lorena Patricia Gallardo-Peralta; Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez; Pablo de Gea Grela; Sonia García Aguña

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0316751

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Unravelling the complexity of the relationship between social support sources and loneliness: A mixed-methods study with older adults

Esteban Sánchez-Moreno ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: esteban.sanchez@ucm.es

¶‡ ESM and LPGP are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Sociology: Methods and Theory, Research Institute for Development and Cooperation, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2978-9485

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Lorena Patricia Gallardo-Peralta ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

¶‡ ESM and LPGP are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Social Work and Social Services, Faculty of Social Work, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3297-2704

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Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Pablo de Gea Grela, Sonia García Aguña

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Research Group on Aging (GIE-CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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Pablo de Gea Grela ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Pablo de Gea Grela, Sonia García Aguña

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social Work and Social Services, Faculty of Social Work, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1456-028X

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Sonia García Aguña

Contributed equally to this work with: Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Pablo de Gea Grela, Sonia García Aguña

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social Work and Social Services, Faculty of Social Work, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Unravelling the complexity of the relationship between social support sources and loneliness: A mixed-methods study with older adults

Esteban Sánchez-Moreno,
Lorena Patricia Gallardo-Peralta,
Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez,
Pablo de Gea Grela,
Sonia García Aguña

Published: January 3, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316751

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