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The Relationship between Loneliness and Personality Variables in Old Age

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2011, 24(2), pp.1-20
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

Hwee-Sook Jang 1 Na-Yeon Kim 1

1충남대학교

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ABSTRACT

With the proportion of social, romantic and family loneliness, this study examined if there’s differences in three types of loneliness according to sex and age, what relationship was there between loneliness and persoanlity variables, that is exteroversion, neurotocism and self-esteem. As results, old adults had the highest proportion in romantic loneliness and the lowest proportion in family loneliness and the experience of loneliness was increased with age. Women experienced more romantic loneliness than men and the men of 76-80 age group experienced more family loneliness than women. Old adults of 76-80 age group experienced more social, romantic and family loneliness than the other two age groups. Except men of 71-75 age group, social and family lonelines negatively correlated with exteraversion and self-exteem and positively with neuroticism. Although similar correlation pattern was found in romantic loneliness, some variation appeared according to age group. It was confirmed three personality variables influenced three types of loneliness.

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