FEELING OF PSYCHOLOGICAL LONELINESS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPRESSION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

The current study aimed to find out the relationship between feeling of psychological loneliness and depression among students of the Faculty of Social Sciences, the sample of the basic study reached (149) male and female students studying in the first year at the University of Oran, the researcher used two scales: The researcher used two scales: One is to measure psychological loneliness: Russel and the other to measure depression for Beck2, Where she was subjected to a psychometric study in which the conditions of validity and consistency were met, after using statistical methods, the results discussed in light of the hypotheses of the study and the results of previous studies resulted in the following:

• - There is a correlation between feeling of psychological loneliness and depression at the significance level (0.01) with a coefficient of (*0.31).


• - There is no correlation between feeling of psychological loneliness and depression in males.


• - There is a correlation between feeling of psychological loneliness and depression in females.


• - The existence of statistically significant differences (T) between the sexes in the feeling of psychological loneliness variable, which was (2.29) at the significance level (0.02) and in favor of females, while there are no statistically significant differences between them in the depression variable.