Loneliness As A Mediator Variable Between Parenting and Coping in Adolescence

MARÍA CRISTINA RICHAUD; CARLA SACCHI; BELÉN MESURADO

The Correlates of Loneliness

Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.

Lugar: Sharjah, U.A.E.; Año: 2016; p. 34 - 49

The objectives of this article are to analyse: 1) the relation betweendimensions of the adolescent perception of parental relationship with them toadolescent functional/dysfunctional coping; 2) the relation between adolescent feelingsof loneliness to adolescent functional/dysfunctional coping; 3) the relation between theadolescent perception of parental relationship with them with their feelings ofloneliness, 4) the relation between adolescent perception of parental relationship withthem with coping, meditated by feelings of loneliness.The abridged and adapted version of Frydenberg and Lewis? (1997) Adolescent CopingScale, CRPBI (Schaefer,1965) adapted and abridged in Argentina, and theAdolescents? Loneliness Assessment (Richaud & Sacchi, 2004) were administered to asample of 950 Argentine middle class adolescents, aged 13 to 16.The results suggest that even though during adolescence, parental styles keep acting ondysfunctional coping with conflict, they do so with less intensity in direct ways, butabove all they influence feelings of loneliness and through these on coping.