Relationships and Loneliness – an exploratory study
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Date
2018-01
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Desousa Foundation
Abstract
Background: Loneliness is a common problem in relationships. The purpose of the study was to find out ifthere is a relation between loneliness and people in romantic relationship.Methods: Convenient sampling was used to collect data in the age range of 18 to 25 years. Data wascollected from 111 people out of which 37 were in a romantic relationship, 37 had been in a romanticrelationship at least once in their lives and 37 had never ever been in a romantic relationship. Tool used tomeasure loneliness was UCLA loneliness scale.Results: The data was not significant. It was found that the degree of loneliness was lowest in people whowere in a romantic relationship and highest in the people had never been in a romantic relationship whenthe survey was conducted.Conclusion:The results show that the difference between the mean reported loneliness for 3 groups is notsignificant. That is being in relationship, or not being in relationship romantically has no significant impacton feelings of loneliness reported in young adults.
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Romantic relationships, Loneliness, Young adults
Citation
Soni Priyal, Shah Riddhi, Shah Vrushti, Dalal Neha. Relationships and Loneliness – an exploratory study. Indian Journal of Mental Health . 2018 JAN; 5(1): 86-90