Social indicators research, 2001-01, Vol.53 (1), p.17-31
2001
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- The Effects of Culture on the Meaning of Loneliness
- Ist Teil von
- Social indicators research, 2001-01, Vol.53 (1), p.17-31
- Ort / Verlag
- Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2001
- Quelle
- Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- The present study examined the influence of cultural background on the experience of loneliness. Three hundred and seventy five participants from North America and 375 from Croatia volunteered to answer an 82 item questionnaire which examined the quality of their loneliness experiences. The factors which comprise the experience of loneliness are Emotional distress, Social inadequacy and alienation, Growth and discovery, Interpersonal isolation, and Self-alienation. Results indicated that cultural background, indeed, affects the experience of loneliness. North Americans scored higher on all five factors, and a similar trend was evident when men and women were compared across cultures.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0303-8300eISSN: 1573-0921DOI: 10.1023/A:1007183101458Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_60085694
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Alienation, American culture, Comparative analysis, Cross cultural studies, Crosscultural Differences, Cultural aspects, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Culture, Drug abuse, Emotional distress, Experiences, Families & family life, Family (Sociological Unit), General studies, Human development, Individual Development, Loneliness, Marital status, Men, North American Cultural Groups, Personality psychology, Population, Psychology, Psychosocial Factors, Questionnaires, Research Methodology, Resistance (Psychology), Slavic Cultural Groups, Slavic culture, Social Background, Social Control, Social Environment, Social exclusion, Social indicators, Social psychology, Social research, Society, Sociocultural Factors, Sociology, Statistical variance, Substance Abuse, War, Well Being