Bt. Mcwhirter, LONELINESS, LEARNED RESOURCEFULNESS, AND SELF-ESTEEM IN COLLEGE-STUDENTS, Journal of counseling and development, 75(6), 1997, pp. 460-469
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.