Turkish adolescents' loneliness.
The goal of this study was to characterize loneliness among adolescents with respect to socioeconomic level, sex, and mothers' and fathers' education. General information about the 400 adolescents and their families were obtained. The UCLA Loneliness Scale was administered. Results of a hierarchical multiple regression showed that mothers' educational level explained a slight but statistically significant amount of variance in adolescents' loneliness scores while sex, socioeconomic level and fathers' educational level did not.
Department of Child Development, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ankara University. a_butun@yahoo.com
Aynur Bütün
AB
Ayhan
Sükran
S
Simşek
Neriman
N
Aral
Gülen
G
Baran
D000293:Adolescent; D003142:Communication; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003625:Data Collection; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008132:Loneliness / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014421:Turkey