Loneliness and Negative Affective Conditions in Adults: Is There Any Room for Hope in Predicting Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms?

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2016-04-02

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Muyan, Mine
Chang, Edward C.
Jilani, Zunaira
Yu, Tina
Lin, Jiachen
Hirsch, Jameson K.

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This study examined the role of hope in understanding the link between loneliness and negative affective conditions (viz., anxiety and depressive symptoms) in a sample of 318 adults. As expected, loneliness was found to be a significant predictor of both anxiety and depressive symptoms. Noteworthy, hope was found to significantly augment the prediction of depressive symptoms, even after accounting for loneliness. Furthermore, we found evidence for a significant Loneliness x Hope interaction effect in predicting anxiety. A plot of the interaction confirmed that the association between loneliness and anxiety was weaker among high, compared to low, hope adults. Some implications of the present findings are discussed.

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Depressive symptoms, Adults, Anxiety, Loneliness, Hope

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/68269

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JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2015.1039474

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Department of Educational Sciences, Article

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M. Muyan, E. C. Chang, Z. Jilani, T. Yu, J. Lin, and J. K. Hirsch, “Loneliness and Negative Affective Conditions in Adults: Is There Any Room for Hope in Predicting Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms?,” JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, pp. 333–341, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/68269.