{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,24]],"date-time":"2025-05-24T09:26:36Z","timestamp":1748078796463},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Pakistan Medical Association","issue":"4","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,15]],"date-time":"2023-03-15T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1678838400000},"content-version":"unspecified","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["J Pak Med Assoc"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Objective: To investigate the association involving appearance anxiety, rejection sensitivity and loneliness in patients with alopecia areata.\nMethod: The correlational study was conducted from February to September 2020 at public-sector and private-sector hospitals in Lahore, Pakistan, and comprised alopecia areata patients of either gender aged 20-40 years. Data was collected using the Appearance Anxiety Inventory, the Appearance-based Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire and the University of California-Los Angeles Loneliness Scale. Data was analysed using SPSS 23.\nResults: Of the 240 patients, 120(50%) each were males and females. The overall mean age was 28.39\u00b13.87 years. Appearance anxiety and rejection sensitivity were positive predictors of loneliness (p&lt;0.000), while rejection sensitivity was positively significantly mediated between appearance anxiety and loneliness (p&lt;0.000).\nConclusion: The association involving appearance anxiety, rejection sensitivity and loneliness was found to be significant.\nKey Words: Alopecia areata, Appearance anxiety, Rejection sensitivity, Loneliness.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.47391\/jpma.6302","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,20]],"date-time":"2023-04-20T17:48:22Z","timestamp":1682012902000},"page":"800-803","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Appearance anxiety and loneliness: the mediating role of rejection sensitivity in patients with alopecia areata in Lahore Pakistan"],"prefix":"10.47391","volume":"73","author":[{"given":"Sadaf","family":"Rehman","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rabia","family":"Jameel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"family":"Admin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"26547","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,15]]},"container-title":["Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/ojs.jpma.org.pk\/index.php\/public_html\/article\/download\/6302\/2238","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,23]],"date-time":"2023-04-23T16:20:58Z","timestamp":1682266858000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/ojs.jpma.org.pk\/index.php\/public_html\/article\/view\/6302"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,15]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"4","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,20]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.47391\/jpma.6302","relation":{},"ISSN":["0030-9982"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0030-9982","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,15]]}}}