ИСКУСТВО УСАМЉЕНОСТИ У АДОЛЕСЦЕНЦИЈИ
THE EXPERIENCE OF LONELINESS IN THE ADOLESCENCE

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the phenomenon of loneliness, the emotional state which is characterized by the feeling of emptiness and isolation, exclusion and isolation from other people. It is the state connected with many psychological troubles, behavioral and social problems and can seriously threaten mental and physical health of the adolescents and grown-up young people. The goal of the research is to examine the frequency of the experience of loneliness in the population of the adolescents, the connection of loneliness with other psychological difficulties, and also with the effects of socialization. A modified questionnaire about the ways of the expression of the crisis in the adolescence (Kondić and co.), the short form of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (University of California Los Angeles Loneliness Scale) and the battery of the tests of socializations (Momirović and co.) are used in this research. The research is conducted on the sample of 300 first year students from the Faculty of Pedagogy in Jagodina, Medical Faculty in Belgrade, Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac and College of Health Studies in Ćuprija, of the average age 19.1 years. The results received by the application of the same questionnaire on the sample of the students in the final year of high schools in the interval of 5 years starting from 1985 until 2010 are used for the comparison (100 adolescents for each researched year). The results of the research have shown that 32% of the adolescents in the researched sample declare as lonely (the comparison points to the trend of the increase of loneliness in the population of the adolescents in relation to the previous year), that the loneliness is statistically significantly connected to other psychological difficulties (depression, self-image disorders, eating disorders, sleep disorders) and with the emphasized effects of socialization, that is, exaggerated socialization (where the solution of this serious problem can be searched).

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