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Loneliness is an experience determined by a person's characteristics, her situational variables, gender, and background. This review article describes the myriad of studies, with sometimes contradictory results about the relation of loneliness to gender with women commonly expressing, though not necessarily experiencing, greater loneliness, and the relation between loneliness and collectivistic and individualistic culture.
Ami Rokach (Tue,) studied this question.