Abstract
Nowadays the issue of loneliness of people is one of the pressing and serious problems, as the number of lonely people in the world increases every year. In this regard, psychological science faces the task of revealing the regularities of emergence and development, peculiarities of manifestation of this state. This article is devoted to the analysis of factors of appearance of feeling of loneliness in women in the process of ontogenesis, starting from early childhood and ending with old age. It is believed that women are the most exposed and therefore vulnerable to the experience of loneliness. Women’s loneliness at different stages of life has its own specifics and differs significantly from men’s experience of it. On the basis of theoretical analysis the conclusions about the peculiarities of this state in each separate age category were made.