Relationship between loneliness and family environment in junior school students
Abstract：Objective To investigate the prevalence of junior school students' loneliness and the effect of family environment on it.Methods A total of 556 junior school students were investigated using Family Environment Scale (FES-CV) and Emotional-Social Loneliness Inventory (ESLI).Results In this study, 53.2% of students had emotional isolation, 39.1% had social isolation, 38.5% had emotional loneliness and 33.9% had social loneliness. Boys suffered more isolation and loneliness than girls (P<0.01). The eight grade students reported more emotional loneliness than those in seven grade (P<0.05). The impact factors of emotion-al isolation and social isolation included cohesion, intellectual and active-recreational orientation. The impact factors of emotional loneliness and social loneliness included cohesion, conflict, active-recreational orientation and organization.Conclusions The prevalence of loneliness is common among junior school students. Family environment has important effect on adolescent loneliness.
Keywords：LonelinessFamily environmentJunior school students
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 122-124 )