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Part 1 (Introduction, Literature Review, and Research Questions/Hypotheses)

Human beings are born designed for connection as deep a need as food, water and warmth is in our DNA. And it stands to reason if you look at a newborn. Until babies are successfully attached to their mother, they will not be capable of surviving. Human babies are born totally powerless, so we focus solely on our caregivers. For infants, a caring, healthy bond is practically a matter of life and death. This research analyzed the impacts of technology on relating with others.

Health service company, Cigna Corporation does address the study on loneliness in a study published in 2018 utilizing the UCLA loneliness scale developed by Daniel Russell. The study suggests on 53% of Americans have meaningful face to face interactions. Baker conducts a literature review exploring technologies used redress social isolation. Golden studies the impacts of isolation on work output. Melumad tries to understand the relationship between consumers and smartphone technology. Weibel explores the telepresence robots among cancer patients.

Can technology help us create meaningful relations and does technology nurture feelings of loneliness? The null hypothesis can be: engagement with technology does not create feelings of loneliness and the alternate hypothesis can be: increased levels of engagement with technology increases measures of loneliness.

Part 2 (Methods and Data Collection, Hypothetical Findings, Suggestions for Future Research, Conclusion, and References)

In this research stratified random sampling is used. Five groups of random 20 respondents were used with equal males and females. The five groupings used were: Generation Z, which refers to individuals aged 18-22years. Millennials, referring to people aged 23-37 years. Generation X referring to people aged 38-51 years. Boomer referring to individuals aged 52-71 years and the Greatest Generation referring to people aged 72 years and above.

The participants are to complete two surveys: the first is provided by psychology tools for internet addiction including smartphones and other technology. This survey utilizes a Likert scale with five options of never, rarely, sometimes, often and always to provide a score regarding to how internet and technology affects their life. The second survey uses a UCLA loneliness scale that accesses how often a person feels disconnected from others and also utilizes a Likert scale with four levels.

The technology and internet survey has a possibility of four different categories with 100-point scale categorizing respondents as either nominally 0-29, mildly excessive 30-49, moderate excessive 50-79 or severely excessive 80-100. The loneliness scale is determined based on responses from the 20 question UCLA loneliness survey respondents are provided with a measure raging from 1%-100%. Screen time measures are in hours and average based data provided by participant cell phones and the three data values collected will be used to calculate the Pearson correlation coefficient values that are closer to a positive or negative measurement.

The findings suggest that Generation Z on average report a higher level of loneliness, higher engagement with technology and higher hours spent on smart phones. In contrast with the Greatest Generation reporting the opposite spectrum with lower measures of loneliness and less engage with technology. Suggestions for future research include analyzing brain response to physical stimulus verses digital stimulus.