Dimensions of loneliness among Canadian and Czech youth: A cross-national study

Coping with Loneliness: Methods Young People Often Prefer1

“…Some hypothetic explanations support that loneliness is experienced due to personal inabilities such as low selfreliance, fear from affinity, due to developmental insufficiencies resulting from the environments such as rejecting or emotionally isolating family conditions, abuse or unhappiness sources, due to inability to have close relations resulting from rejecting or hostile communication, or due to translocation, leaving somebody significant or social marginality (Rokach, 2002). Eventhough, there is a belief in the fact that loneliness increases creativity and emotional endurance and helps self-realization, it is undesired because of the fact that it harms human love and intimacy feelings, it prevents the energy from being spent by meaningful ways, it can drag people to life conditions which they are not prepared for such as marriage and gang membership and it is generally accompanied by low living conditions and physical health .…”