Facets of Loneliness and Depression Among Chinese Children and Adolescents
- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in The Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 139 (6), 713-729
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224549909598251
Abstract
The authors examined the relation among different facets of loneliness and depression in a sample of 6,356 Chinese children and adolescents from Grades 4–9. Loneliness and depression were closely related among the primary (Grades 4–6) and secondary (Grades 7–9) students, both boys and girls. Although the different facets of loneliness were predictive of the various facets of depression, peer-related loneliness and aloneness were more predictive of depression in both groups than was parent-related loneliness. The students in Grades 5 and 6 scored lower for loneliness but a little higher for depression than did the students in Grade 4. The students in Grades 8 and 9 scored higher than the students in Grade 7 for loneliness and depression. The primary boys scored higher than the primary girls for both loneliness and depression. Among the secondary students, there was no difference between the scores of the boys and those of the girls for loneliness, but the boys scored lower than the girls for depression.Keywords
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