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Loneliness and Negative Affective Conditions in Adults: Is There Any Room for Hope in Predicting Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms?
Date
2016-04-02
Author
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.
Subject Keywords
Depressive symptoms
,
Adults
,
Anxiety
,
Loneliness
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Hope
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/68269
Journal
JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2015.1039474
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Department of Educational Sciences, Article