Research for The Levels of Self Respect and Loneliness of University Students
Abstract
This
study aims to determine the connection between university students’ self
respect and loneliness. The survey data was provided from 527 students studying
at the faculty of Economic Administrative and Social Sciences, Istanbul Gelişim
University, between 2015-2016. In the survey, ‘Rosenberg Self Respect Scale’
was used along with ‘Ucla Loneliness Scale’, and the data was analyzed with IBM
SPSS 220. According to the survey results, ,there is a remarkable relation
between loneliness and self respect, confidence, self-continuity, sensitivity to criticism, depressive
emotion, fancifulness, psychosomatic symptoms, feeling threatened in relations
with others, parental affection, psychic isolation, level of taking part in a
discussion. It has been also found out that subdimension of relations with the
father, age and gender don’t affect level of loneliness and that subdimensions
of self respect are connected to age and gender.
Keywords
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