LONELINESS, LEARNED RESOURCEFULNESS, AND SELF-ESTEEM IN COLLEGE-STUDENTS

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among types of loneliness and learned resourcefulness, self-esteem, and gender am ong a sample of college students. The Revised University of California , Los Angeles, Loneliness Scale (R-UCLA), Rosenbaum's Self-Control Sch edule, a measure of learned resourcefulness, and Rosenberg's Self-Este em Scale were administered to 625 college students. Previous factor an alyses of the R-UCLA revealed that it measures 2 distinct types of lon eliness: intimate loneliness and social loneliness. Results of multipl e regression analyses revealed that self-esteem and gender significant ly-predicted the experience of global loneliness (as measured by the f ull-scale R-UCLA), intimate loneliness, and social loneliness. Learned resourcefulness significantly predicted social loneliness only. Impli cations for college student counseling and future research are discuss ed.