Shopping Turns Out To Be Able To Overcome Loneliness, But... Here's An EXplanatory Research

Illustration of shopping to overcome loneliness has a negative effect on the social aspect (Unsplash/Freetruck)

YOGYAKARTA There are many ways to socially connect that are useful in expiring feelings of loneliness. Like by communicating or collaborating with certain groups. However, one way for many people to overcome loneliness is by shopping. According to research, although it can be a co-operating behavior in dealing with feelings of silence, this can change a person's perspective on happiness and well-being.

Many people experience loneliness, including those who want to have many friends but fail to make friends. The driving factor is relative, such as lack of self-confidence, not in time, or fear of being rejected.

Research conducted by Fumadali and colleagues quoted by Arash Emamzadeh in Psychology Today, describes that keepian refers to the subjective experience of deficiencies in a person's social relationships, the feeling that this relationship is less qualified or unsatisfactory in important matters. maltreatment is different from objective social isolation. Aloneish people can feel it in the midst of crowds even when they have friends. In other conditions, people are socially isolated because they feel satisfied with limited connections or spend a long time in loneliness.

Research shows loneliness related to various healthy behaviors, including an adaptive emotional setting strategy or difficulty controlling oneself, and is a powerful predictor of many negative outcomes such as anxiety, depression, and increased pain.

Shopping is a compensation that refers to the use of products to meet psychological needs to have. Experience in shopping, can also be neutral or positive. However, shopping as psychological compensation is dangerous because it substitutes or replaces social conditions with material things. Research also shows that meterialism has a negative impact on happiness and well-being.

That way, social motives to connect with people around them will decrease. In fact, avoiding even meeting other people because of material'satisfaction' is fulfilled. Feelings of loneliness released without building a social relationship, actually lead to negative conditions, such as feeling insecure, always being vigilant, just focusing on yourself, or selfish.

That is, the strategy of koping with consumption backfires. Which causes loneliness to enlarge and becomes increasingly difficult to build social interactions. So, trying to stay socially connected to consumptive behavior, might be a solution. For example, shopping for community-based used goods, or shopping in social circles with the same hobby. That way, a person stays connected socially and consumptive perspectives are not only material.