Loneliness, Social Support, and Anxiety among Two South Pacific Cultures
- 1 June 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 74 (3) , 875-879
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1994.74.3.875
Abstract
This study was designed to investigate the relations among two sources of social support, various aspects of loneliness, and anxiety from two different cultural groups. One group was comprised of Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian people ( n = 54) and the other of East Indian and Caucasian people ( n = 27). As hypothesized, significant correlations (direct and inverse) between scores on a measure of social support and loneliness were found and a positive one between anxiety and loneliness.Keywords
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