The Relationship Between Loneliness And Depression Among Middle School Students

Loneliness is a very common emotional experience in today's society.It is prone to appear in high school students.Persistent loneliness will affect the healthy development of the individual's body and mind,leading to self-blame,low self-esteem,depression and other psychological emotion.The relationship between loneliness and depression in high school students demonstrate that a sense of loneliness for a long time can lead to a negative psychological depression,which makes mental damage to the high school students.This article aims to explore the relationship between loneliness and depression to find an effective method of education.To explore this relationship,we adopted children Loneliness Scale,Beck Depression Inventory scale.we choose two senior middle schools and two junior middle schools from Zhongshan City,Guangdong Province(a total of 420 students)in cluster sampling,we adopted SPSS20.0 for statistical analysis.The Study shows that:(1)Gender differences are not significant in loneliness.But grades make a big difference(P = 0.002<0.05),Loneliness was significantly different between grades.(P = 0.000<0.05),other dimensions are not significant.In pure loneliness dimensions,the students from Grade1 were significantly lower than the ones from Grade 2,the senior middle school students were significantly lower than the students from junior middle school.But other grades have no obvious difference.(2)The difference between male and female is not obvious.(P = 0.905>0.05).The main effect is not significant in different grades of depression(P = 0.099>0.05).(3)Depression and pure loneliness had significant positive correlation with the evaluation of peer relationship,they also have positive correlation with the consciousness of unsatisfactory relation.Depression was negatively correlated with perceived social competence.Therefore,the author thinks that starting with the students' existing circumstance of Depression and loneliness,and the differences in gender and grades,we can seek ways to alleviate the sense of loneliness of middle school students,which helps to reduce the level of depression.