Abstract
Apparent from the research findings, there exist profound relationships between Age and state of loneliness and social attraction, subsequent to research findings, it is apparent that lonely people tend to be more stigmatized as compared to the non-lonely, and that old people are lonelier than young people, men are lonelier than men among many other facts revolving around the subject matter. The most important materials during the experiment were six page paper packages which included six scenarios with 10 questions regarding each scenario per page, the level of loneliness was measured using Revised UCLA. The findings proved that, attractiveness is highly dependent on level of loneliness more than age owing to the fact that the non-lonely adults were more attractive, while on the other hand the lonely adults were perceived to be comparatively attractive. The implications derived from the entire research proved that age and state of loneliness are two factors that exceedingly affect attractiveness.
Discussion
Summary of Findings (Three Findings from Three Hypothesis)
The first study scrutinized postulated that; based on research findings, the social stigma of loneliness has established beyond reasonable doubt that lonely people are in most cases alienated and evaluated negatively. The experiment that worked to prove this notion entailed evaluating lonely people in measure of the significant psychological attributes alongside measures of interpersonal attraction. The results deduced from the related study made it certain that loneliness is in its own a stigmatized state. In comparison to the non-lonely individuals, lonely individuals are perceived to be less intellectually competent, less psychologically adjusted, and poor achievers. Generally, this study established that, loneliness is a distinctive character that develops owing the fact that one has no friends, has no desire to make social ties, make negative perceptions about themselves, and general undesirable attributes likely to alienate them firm other people.
The second research postulated that; men were lonelier as compared to women basing their arguments and notions on the results deduced from UCLA Loneliness Scale, additionally, the same findings proved that women were lonelier than men based on self-labelling measures of loneliness. Borys and Perlman, in their research maintained that men were lonelier than women but they were less likely to admit tis fact owing to the fact that they would risk incurring negative social consequences. The results retrieved from this study were congruent with the ‘social stigma’ perceptions on loneliness, the study proved that loneliness is a category that is in most cases overlooked particularly in men were they avoid concealing the situation to avoid social rejection. The results deduced from the related research proved the hypothesis and perceptions on loneliness to be true.
In the second study scrutinized and revolves around social stigma, Lau and Kong (1999) went ahead to ascertain the preceding findings on social stigma and to prove research on the reactions of people regarding individuals with high level loneliness and those with low level of loneliness. Essentially, this research entailed investigating the perception of lonely people towards other lonely people and the relationships that existed between self-concepts and loneliness. The findings proved that lonely people tend to be more stigmatized as compared to the non-lonely.
Prior to undertaking the research study, the younger adults were perceived more attractive as compared to older adults, this is essentially based on the notion that people get less attractive with age subsequent to the fact that they gradually lose their attractive physical attributes as they age. Despite the above supposition, the fact that some people fail to lose their attractiveness due to age was not covered. Additionally, it was postulated that the rates of attractiveness among individuals varied depending on where the individual was lonely or not. Essentially, it was postulated that lonely people were not happy hence high vulnerabilities to deformities unlike the happy no lonely individuals.
Evaluate Findings in Light for Previous Research
Arguably, the results deduced from this research were in most cases congruent with the research findings of the previous research findings and hypothesis stated prior to the research study. From the statistical data incorporate in this study, it is apparent that indeed the research study was far congruent with the initial research findings in relation to our research.
Limitations
Similar to any other research, there were many apparent limitations that were viewed as potential factors that could essentially tamper with data validity, hence distorting the conclusions and the link made between the preceding findings and the present findings. The very first limitation is that, the participants in the research were less. In other words the sample size was no relative. Another possible limitation is the fact that most of the participants were females and most of them were university students, a fact that made it hard to establish an operational definition on dependent variable "attractiveness, interpersonal scale". Furthermore, it is important to note that different people have their own differing taste in matters regarding to interpersonal attractiveness, a fact that is likely to distort the validity of the comprehensive conclusions made from the research.
Future directions
Implications
Generally, from the previous studies relating to our subject matter, and the findings deduced from this research, it can be concluded that loneliness is a facet closely related to the level of attractiveness in the sense that less attractive old individuals owing to their less attractive physical attributes are lonelier when compared to the young individuals who essentially possess attractive attributes. It is important to acknowledge the fact that age and state of loneliness are two factors that exceedingly affect attractiveness.
