Open AccessSuočavanje s usamljenošću: značenje iskustva i uzroka usamljenosti
Author(s) -
Izabela Sorić,
Katica Lacković-Grgin,
Zvjezdan Penezić
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
radovi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2806-8432
pISSN - 0352-6798
DOI - 10.15291/radovifpsp.2530
Subject(s) - loneliness , croatian , denial , faith , psychology , social psychology , theology , philosophy , psychoanalysis , linguistics
A questionnaire, which included some questions for measuring different strategies of coping with loneliness (author A. Rokach) has been translated and administered to 484 subjects aged 16-90 years. Principal factor analysis was used, and six interpretable factors were extracted. Three of them (Thinking and acceptance, Social support network, Religion and faith) were almost the same as the factors which were obtained by Ami Rokach. The other three factors (Distance and denial, Higher activity, Self-development and understanding) have substantial differences in comparison with the factors which were obtained in Canadian research. The differences could be, in part, interpreted in terms of cultural differences between the Canadian and Croatian sample.