High-school students' loneliness in relation to friends, family and love partners
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https://doi.org/10.15291/radovifpsp.2602Abstract
In studying a group of 483 high-school students from Zadar, the Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults (SELSA, DiTommaso & Spinner, 1993) was administered to assess the level of loneliness in three domains: friendships, family, and romantic relationships.The main aim of the study was to examine if three scales of the SELSA could be used as reliable measures of these aspects of loneliness during this period of adolescence as well. The results suggest that social and family scales can be considered as reliable measures of adolescents' loneliness in friendships and family, whereas items of romantic scale defined two unrelated dimensions, labeled unsatisfaction with actual status and desire for intimacy. However, in some subgroups, these dimensions were positively or negatively associated, depending on subjects' gender, grade level, and/or actual romantic involvement. The pattern of correlations among the SELSA's scales, obtained in this sample, is in line with the previous research findings, suggesting that the assumed validity of the SELSA in assessing Weiss' concepts of social and emotional loneliness, has no adequate support in empirical data.References
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ĆALUŠIĆ, M. (1998): Usamljenost, afilijativna motivacija i socijalne strategije u kasnoj adolescenciji, Diplomski rad, Filozofski fakultet u Zadru.
DITOMMASO, E., SPINNER, B. (1997): Social and Emotional Loneliness: A Re-examination of Weiss’ typology of loneliness, Personality and Individual Differences, 22(3), 417-427.
DITOMMASO, E., SPINNER, B. (1993): The Deevelopment and Initial Validation of the Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults (SELSA), Personality and Individual Differences, 14(1), 127-134. DUCK, S. (1998): Human Relationships, London, Sage.
GOSWICK, R. A., JONES, W. H. (1982): Components of Loneliness During Adolescence, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 11 (5), 373-382.
KOKORA, L. (1998): Usamljenost: Razlike u iskustvu i uzrocima s obzirom na različite sociodemografske varijable, Diplomski rad, Filozofski fakultet u Zadru.
LACKOVIĆ-GRGIN, K. (2002): Kratka verzija UCLA skale usamljenosti, U: K. Lacković-Grgin, A. Proroković, V. Ćubela i Z. Penezić (ur.): Zbirka psihologijskih skala i upitnika (I) (str. 77-78), Filozofski fakultet u Zadru.
LACKOVIĆ-GRGIN, K„ PENEZIĆ, Z„ ŽUTELIJA, S. (2001): Dobne i spolne razlike u samootkrivanju adolescenata različitim osobama, Društvena istraživanja, 3, 53, 341-363.
LACKOVIĆ-GRGIN, K., PENEZIĆ, Z„ SORIĆ, I. (1998): Struktura iskustva usamljenosti mjerene upitnikom A. Rokach, Radovi Filozofskog fakulteta u Zadru, 37(14), 33-52.
MARCOEN, A., GOOSSENS, L. (1993): Loneliness, attitude toward aloneness, and solitude: Age differences and developmental significance during adolescence. U: S. Jackson i H. Rodriguez-Tomé (ur.): Adolesecence and its social worlds (str. 197-227). Hove, Erlbaum.
MARCOEN, A., BRUMAGNE, M. (1985): Loneliness Among Children and Young Adolescents, Developmental Psychology, 21(6), 1025-1031.
NEKIĆ, M. (1998): Usamljenost i samoća: njihovi korelati u kasnoj adolescenciji, Diplomski rad, Filozofski fakultet u Zadru.
PEPLAU, L., PERLMAN, D. (1982): Perspectives on Loneliness. U: L. Peplau i D, Perlman (ur.): Loneliness: A Sourcebook of Current Theory, Research and Therapy (str. 1-18), New York, John Wiley.
RUSSELL, D., CUTRONA, C. E„ YURKO, K. (1984): Social and emotional loneliness: An examination of Weiss’ typology of loneliness, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46(6), 1313-1321.
SAKLOFSKE, D. H„ YACKULIC, R. A. (1989): Personality predictors of loneliness, Personality and Individual Differences, 10(4), 467-472.
SCHAFFER, H. R. (1996): Social Development, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers.
SCHMITT, J. P., KURDEK, L. A. (1985): Age and Gender Differences in and Personality Correlates of Loneliness in Different Relationships, Journal of Personality Assessment, 49(5), 485-496.
SHULMAN, S., KIPNIS, O. (2001): Adolescent romantic relationships: a look from future, Journal of Adolescence, 24, 337-351.
SHULMAN, S., SEIFFGE-KRENKE, I. (2001): Adolescent romance: between experience and relationships, Journal of Adolescence, 24, 417-428. VALČIĆ, D. (2000): Odnos afilijativne motivacije i prisnosti u prijateljstvu kod adolescenata, Diplomski rad, Filozofski fakultet u Zadru.
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