Loneliness,positive life events,and psychological maladjustment: When good things happen,even lonely people feel better! |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, United States;2. Department of Educational Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Turkey;3. Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, United States;1. Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Helmholtz Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands;3. Tactus Addiction Care, The Netherlands;4. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom;1. Scientific Research Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia;2. Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of RAS, Moscow, Russia;3. Institute of Psychology of RAS, Moscow, Russia;4. National Research Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia;1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, MI, USA;2. Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan;1. Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom;2. University of California, Berkeley, United States;3. University of Liverpool, United Kingdom;4. Queen''s University, Belfast, United Kingdom;5. San Francisco State University, United States |
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| Abstract: | The present study investigated loneliness and positive life events as predictors of psychological maladjustment (viz., depression, hopelessness, & suicidal behaviors) in a sample of 327 adults. Beyond the expected role of loneliness in psychological maladjustment, positive life events were found to further augment the prediction of depression, hopelessness, and suicidal behaviors. In addition, the presence of positive life events was found to buffer the positive association between loneliness and maladjustment. Specifically, the positive association between loneliness and psychological maladjustment was found to be weaker for those who experienced a high number of positive life events, as opposed to those who experienced a low number of positive life events. Some implications for helping adults perceive or appreciate the presence of positive events in their lives are discussed. |
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