Loneliness Of Adolescent And Its Relationship With Emotional Intelligence, Parental Attachment

With the rapid development of society, work and life pressure has gradually increased. Many people are of psychological sub-health state, even in the crowd they feel lonely.90’s middle school students are precocious, sophisticated and indulgent. However, their mental health problems has become the focus of attention.Lots of studies have confirmed the relation between teenagers’loneliness and their peer relationships. While family still plays a vital role in emotional support of adolescents. After establishing the questionnaire of adolescent’s loneliness, we try to examine whether emotional intelligence serve as mediator between parental attachment and feeling of loneliness. The study is divided into two parts.Study1constructed the theoretical hypothesis of loneliness and worked out loneliness scale for adolescent students. We combined literature analysis, open questionnaire and interview, while compared with the items in scales used home and abroad. And we used the353valid questionnaires for exploratory factor analysis. Finally it made3factors:loneliness of family relationships, loneliness of peer relationships, feeling of social isolation. The final questionnaire includes16items. Participants were897middle school students from Chongqing and Gansu province. We analyzed801valid data in the way of confirmatory factor analysis. The results showed:The correlation coefficient of dimensions and the whole scale ranged from0.6to0.85; In the index of construct validity indicated that the new scale’s structural equation model fitted well; high correlation with existing loneliness scale demonstrated that construct validity of the new scale is evident. Study2explored the relationship between parental attachment, emotional intelligence and loneliness. The characteristics of loneliness of adolescent students: there was significant difference in grade, geographical and whether the only child or not; but there is no significant difference in gender. There was significant difference on emotional intelligence and parental attachment within gender and grade.linear regression method was used to inspect the prediction of emotional intelligence and parental attachment to loneliness. The results showed that, emotional intelligence was mediator factor between parental attachment and loneliness, and parental attachment had a direct impact on loneliness.