Open AccessImpact of Educational Qualification on Social Support, Social Isolation and Social and Emotional Loneliness: A Study of Senior Citizens
Author(s) -
Sadaf Gul,
Rabia Chishti,
Maher Bano
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
peshawar journal of psychology and behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2518-4474
pISSN - 2415-6779
DOI - 10.32879/picp.2018.4.2.153
Subject(s) - loneliness , ucla loneliness scale , social isolation , scale (ratio) , psychology , nonprobability sampling , khyber pakhtunkhwa , friendship , social support , social engagement , sample (material) , social psychology , developmental psychology , sociology , demography , socioeconomics , social science , population , geography , psychiatry , cartography , chemistry , chromatography
The present study aims to investigate the impact of educational qualification on social support, social isolation, and loneliness (social and emotional) among Senior Citizens. De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale (1985),Social Support Scale developed by Malik (2002), and Friendship Scale developed by Hawthorne (2006) were used to measure the pertinent constructs of present study. Purposive convenient sampling technique was used to draw the sample of older adults (N = 500) aged 60 to 90 years (M = 67.59, SD = 7.54) from both urban and rural areas of various districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Alpha coefficients, for all the variables were computed, which ranged between .60 for social loneliness to .96 for social support total scale. Study found significant differences among the variables. Findings revealed that educational qualification of the sample had a positive impact on their social support and they were less socially isolated as compared to uneducated senior citizens.