Personality traits, loneliness, and attitudes toward aloneness in adolescence
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Within a dual-level model of personality, loneliness, and attitudes toward aloneness can be regarded as phase-specific adaptations that are influenced by personality traits. Therefore, we examined the associations between personality traits (i.e., the Big Five, sociotropy, and autonomy), loneliness, and attitudes toward aloneness in two samples of late adolescents ( N = 1388 and N = 419). A specific pattern of associations was found that replicated across samples. Lower scores on agreeableness and stronger concerns about independence (i.e., greater autonomy) were positive predictors of both peer-related and parent-related loneliness. Extraversion was a predictor of lower affinity for and greater aversion to aloneness. The other personality traits were predictors of a particular type of loneliness or a specific attitude toward aloneness.
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“Numerous studies show that negative affect is correlated with both extraversion (negatively) and neuroticism (positively; Klimstra et al., 2010; Teppers et al., 2013; Vanhalst et al., 2012).”
Background
- Authors
- Teppers, E., Klimstra, T. A., Damme, C. V., Luyckx, K., Vanhalst, J., & Goossens, L.
- Affiliations
- KU Leuven (BE)
- Tilburg University (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Teppers, Eveline
- Venue
- Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2013-04-09
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1045-1063
- ISSN
- 0265-4075 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-3608
- OpenAlex
- W2143977192
- Cited by
- 122
- References
- 52
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- FWCI
- 4.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (publishedVersion)
- Research portal (Tilburg University) (publishedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Keywords
- loneliness, personality traits, Big Five personality traits, sociotropy, autonomy, agreeableness, extraversion, late adolescence
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