期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：1998
卷号：7
期号：4-5 (36-37)
页码：543-558
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：The aim of this study was to examine the conceptual distinction between loneliness and solitude, their interrelationship, and their relations with growth variables of the Maslow hierarchical model. 124 male and 176 female students of the University of Split participated in the study. The instruments used in this study were: short form of UCLA loneliness scale (Allen & Oshagan, 1995), preference for solitude scale, Rosenberg self-esteem scale, short index of self-actualization, Hills affiliative motivation scales, shyness scale and mastery orientation scale (Nurmi et al, 1996). The results confirm the conceptual distinction between loneliness and solitude, and their moderate positive correlation. Although, according to the conceptualization of self actualization, solitude could be used for creative activities, this correlation indicates that solitude could be used as well as a coping mechanism when people are lonely. The best predictors of loneliness are variables from Maslow’s model (negative correlations with affiliative motivation, self-esteem and self-actualization) as well as gender (young men are more lonely in comparison with young women). The variables used explain significantly less variance of solitude, indicating that further research related to solitude, will probably shed more light on that part of the adolescents’ experience.
