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Article
Personality Predictors of School Loneliness in Adolescent Students
Author(s)
Dorit Olenik-Shemesh
Moshe Zeidner
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2013.10.004
Affiliation(s)
The Open University of Israel, Raanana, Israel
University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
ABSTRACT
This
time-lagged study explores the role of the big-five factors of personality in
predicting school loneliness in adolescent students. Personality data were
gathered on 203 Israeli high-school students towards the beginning of the
school year. Four months later, data were gathered on self-reported loneliness
in school. Overall, these data support the conclusion that personality
variables are meaningfully related to school-related loneliness in adolescents.
Thus, consistent with our predictions, adolescents higher on extraversion and
agreeableness were also lower on loneliness, whereas those higher on neuroticism
were also higher on loneliness. A surprising positive relationship between openness
and loneliness, when controlling for other personality factors, was found in
the study, attributed to suppressor effects.
KEYWORDS
personality, big-five factor, loneliness, adolescents
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