Ukrainian female students reported feeling less emotionally lonely over time, with a small but statistically significant decrease from 2022 to 2024.

Higher depression levels in Ukrainian female students were strongly linked to higher emotional loneliness, moderately linked to general loneliness, and weakly linked to social loneliness.

The more lonely these students feel — especially emotionally — the more depressed and burned out they tend to be. Their depression is the biggest factor linked to how lonely they feel.