Lonelines in pre-through late adolescence: Exploring the contributions of a multidimensional approach.

摘要: A multidimensional loneliness measure was administered to 444 subjects in the 11-17 age range. The four-scale instrument probes for relationships with parents and peers, aversion affinity aloneness. All subscales were shown exhibit high reliability excellent factorial validity. With regard effects, a marginally significant increase found parent-related loneliness, accompanied by sudden drop at seventh-grade level. decreasing trend emerged both peer-related set of variables pertaining subjects' social integration (number friends, quality friendships) psychological functioning (outlook on future) accounted sizable portion variance all four scales, particularly loneliness. Implications these findings are discussed suggestions future research outlined.