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The relationship between resilience and loneliness elucidated by a Danish version of the resilience scale for adults
- Source :
- BMC Psychology, Jakobsen, I S, Riis Madsen, L M, Mau, M, Hjemdal, O & Friborg, O 2020, ' The relationship between resilience and loneliness elucidated by a Danish version of the resilience scale for adults ', BMC Psychology, vol. 8, no. 1, 131 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-020-00493-3, BMC Psychology, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Background: Research on the relationship between resilience and loneliness is sparse. The construct of resilience has been conceptualized in multiple ways, including the measurement of resilience. The Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) is a measure of protective factors. The present study examined whether resiliency moderates any negative relationship between loneliness and mental health and additionally examined the psychometric properties of the Danish translation of the RSA. Methods: A Danish sample (N = 422) completed the UCLA Loneliness Scale, Hopkins Symptom Check List-25 (HSCL- 25), the Sense of Coherence (SOC-13), and the RSA, Resilience Scale for Adults. Results: The measure of loneliness correlated significantly and negatively with most facets of the RSA, except the subscales of family cohesion and structured style. The strongest correlation was the negative one between loneliness and SOC. The results indicated that people feeling lonely also experience their life as less meaningful. Conclusion: The study supports the existing six-factor structure of the Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) in a Danish sample. The results indicate that all facets of resiliency were negatively related to loneliness. Also, the facets of perception of self and family coherence could explain a substantial amount of the variance associated with symptoms of depression in relation to loneliness. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Psychometrics
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VDP::Social science: 200::Psychology: 260
Denmark
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Danish
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Resiliency
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
General Psychology
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Depression
Psychological research
Loneliness
05 social sciences
Loneliness/psychology
General Medicine
Resilience, Psychological
Mental health
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030227 psychiatry
UCLA Loneliness Scale
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Mental Health
Protective factors
Feeling
Negative relationship
VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Psykologi: 260
language
Female
Psychological resilience
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Depression/psychology
050104 developmental & child psychology
Clinical psychology
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20507283
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7b89fdc33f88cf77833771bc2dfa832d