You can support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your response on ANSWERSHEETTHREE. Loneliness and Wisdom:Are They Related? Rising rates of loneliness may not be news, but the three periods when it peaks may come as a surprise:More people reported feeling moderate to severe loneliness during their late 20s, their mid-50s and their late 80s than in other life periods, according to the research published in the journal International Psychogeriatrics. The general sense of isolation was also more prevalent than the researchers had expected.A full three-quarters of the study participants reported moderate to high levels of loneliness, said Dr. Philip Jeste, senior author of the study and a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Califomia, San Diego. “One thing to remember is that loneliness is subjective. Loneliness does not mean being alone;loneliness does not mean not having friends,"said Dr. Jeste, who is also director at the UC San Diego's Center for Healthy Aging,"Loneliness is defined as"subjective distress'? It is the discrepancy between the social relationships you want and the social relationships you have, he said. Within the dark clouds, Dr. Jeste also found a silver lining:An inverse relationship exists between loneliness and wisdom."In other words, people who have high levels of wisdom didn't feel lonely, and vice versa,"he said.

Read carefully the following excerpt and then write your response in NOLESS THAN 200 WORDS, in which you should: 1) summarize the study results, and then 2) comment on the relationship between loneliness and wisdom. You can support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your response on ANSWERSHEETTHREE. Loneliness and Wisdom:Are They Related? Rising rates of loneliness may not be news, but the three periods when it peaks may come as a surprise:More people reported feeling moderate to severe loneliness during their late 20s, their mid-50s and their late 80s than in other life periods, according to the research published in the journal International Psychogeriatrics. The general sense of isolation was also more prevalent than the researchers had expected.A full three-quarters of the study participants reported moderate to high levels of loneliness, said Dr. Philip Jeste, senior author of the study and a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Califomia, San Diego. “One thing to remember is that loneliness is subjective. Loneliness does not mean being alone;loneliness does not mean not having friends,"said Dr. Jeste, who is also director at the UC San Diego's Center for Healthy Aging,"Loneliness is defined as"subjective distress'? It is the discrepancy between the social relationships you want and the social relationships you have, he said. Within the dark clouds, Dr. Jeste also found a silver lining:An inverse relationship exists between loneliness and wisdom."In other words, people who have high levels of wisdom didn't feel lonely, and vice versa,"he said.