Generalized and specific loneliness in early marriage.

Abstract
Thirty-eight husbands and wives, relatively young and without children, independently completed a set of established measures of loneliness and of aspects of their marital relationship. Significant levels of loneliness were reported by some subjects, and only modest correlations were found between the loneliness scores of husbands and wives. General and specific loneliness were related to marital attitudes, particularly less liking, lss intimacy, and greater communication apprehension among husbands, and to less liking, less marital satisfaction, less love, and less self-disclosure among the wives. Scores of the spouses and spouse difference scores on several of these variables were also related to loneliness. These findings are discussed as pertaining to loneliness without social isolation, and in relation to the quality of relationships.

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