Coping with Loneliness
- 1 December 1981
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 7 (4) , 565-571
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616728174007
Abstract
This study identifies a set of strategies that people use to cope with loneliness and examines causal attributions for loneliness as predictors of coping behavior. Subjects were 128 adults who completed a questionnaire including the NYU Loneliness Scale, two attributional measures, and a modification of the Ways of Coping Scale. A distinction was made between problem-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies. Internal attributions for loneliness were found to be related to the intensity of coping efforts, but not to the type of strategy used (that is, problem-focused vs. emotion-focused).Keywords
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