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Predictors of adolescent loneliness were investigated in two samples of high school students (n=92)and college undergraduates (n=192).Results were similar across samples. Among the high school sample loneliness was significantly predicted by a combination of alienation, a lack of social facility and acceptance, inferiority feelings, negative school attitudes, and a lack of social integration. Among college students loneliness was negatively related to social facility, regularity, approval, and involvement and positively related to alienation, parental disinterest, negative school attitudes, and inferiority feelings.
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Research interests include loneliness and self-concept.
Received Ph.D. in social psychology from Oklahoma State University. Research interests include loneliness and friendships.
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Goswick, R.A., Jones, W.H. Components of loneliness during adolescence. J Youth Adolescence 11, 373–383 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01540375
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