SOLO mental disposition mental disposition solitude behavior disposition 2025-02-05T17:49:47Z A mental disposition that, if realized, is realized in being physical alone or in lacking social interactions, whether desired or not. Solitude is most often linked to low levels of loneliness and positive emotions when it is chosen solitude (due to enjoying solitude) and spent in active ways; people with a propensity to ruminate and those who choose solitude because they do not like being with others tend to suffer the most in solitude - Julie What are the different motivations that explain why some seek solitude? Here there are so many overlapping terms (ie., unsociability, preference for solitude, avoidance, social anhedonia, affinity for solitude, affinity for aloneness, aversion to aloneness, autonomous solitude, not self-motivated solitude), but I have a recent study suggesting that the constructs tend to load into three larger factors: shyness, affinity for solitude, and social detachment. solitude Damayanthi Jesudas Bill Duncan John Beverley Finn Wilson