Philippine E-Journals

Loneliness and Resiliency of Students with Separated Parents at Baliuag University

Christian E. Jordan | Hannah Krishia DR Gito

 

Abstract:

Guided by the Resiliency Theory and Attachment Theory as the theoretical frameworks, this empirically-driven research examined if there is a relationship between loneliness and resiliency and if loneliness is a predictor of resiliency. The participants of the study were composed of 151 senior high school students (69 male and 82 female) of Baliuag University, enrolled in academic year 2018-2019. They were selected and identified thru their cumulative records, particularly based on their answer on family status / parental marriage status which is separated. The measures used were Pen Portrait which surfaced the demographic information of the respondents, Adolescent Psychological Resilience Scale (APRS), and Loneliness Scale (LS). The reported internal consistencies of the measures are 0.87 for APRS and 0.94 for LS which signify that all of the instruments have good reliability. The results revealed that (a) there is a positive relationship between loneliness and resiliency; (b) loneliness predicts resiliency; (c) gender differences are not significant in terms of loneliness and resiliency; and (d) differences of the age of the students when their parents got separated are not significant in terms of loneliness and resiliency.