Perspectives About Relocation and Loneliness in Residentially Mobile Adolescents
Issue Date
2011-08-31Author
Wilcox, Lisette Blumenthal
Publisher
University of Kansas
Format
43 pages
Type
Thesis
Degree Level
M.A.
Discipline
Psychology
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Residential relocation is a stressful event associated with negative impacts on adolescent's friendships; however, this is may be temporary. The current study categorized adolescent-identified benefits and struggles of moving and examined reports of loneliness in 136 relocated adolescents (ages 12-14) at three time points over the year following moving. Results of benefits and struggles coding indicate that adolescents tend to identify the same aspects of moving as both benefits and struggles, most commonly making new friends, and these benefits and struggles are largely consistent over time. Results of cluster analyses using self-reported loneliness indicate two groups of relocated adolescents: those with higher and those with lower levels of post-move loneliness. Feelings of loneliness declined over the course of the year for both groups. Comparison of benefits and struggles for adolescents in high and low loneliness groups indicated few differences in these perceptions. Implications for parents, teachers, and clinicians are discussed.
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