Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to explore the relationship between social
connectedness, loneliness, interpersonal support, and hopelessness among
adults. 500 adults of age 18-60+ years participated in the current study.
The sample was selected by the purposive sampling method. Data was
collected using Social Connectedness Scale –Original (Lee & Robbins,
1995), UCLA Loneliness Scale -Version 3 (Russell & Cutrona, 1996),
Lubben Social Network scale- Revised (Lubben, 2002), and Depression
Hopelessness Scale (Mills and Kroner, 2003). Psychometric properties of
the scales revealed satisfactory reliability for the study sample. The
Pearson product-moment correlation analysis indicated that interpersonal
support was found to be significantly positively correlated with social
connectedness and both of them negatively correlated with hopelessness
and loneliness whereas less interpersonal support significantly predicted
more hopelessness among adults. Results also indicated that males had
more interpersonal support and social connectedness than females.
Anika Asghar, Nazia Iqbal. (2021) Relationship between Social Connectedness, Loneliness, Interpersonal Support and Hopelessness among Adults, Journal of Behavioural Sciences, Volume-31, Issue-2.
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