Lonely in Different Relationships: Bidirectional Effects between Parent- and Peer-Related Loneliness in Adolescence

Flore Geukens, Annette Spithoven, Margot Bastin, Janne Vanhalst and Marlies Maes
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Flore Geukens: School Psychology and Development in Context, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Annette Spithoven: School Psychology and Development in Context, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Margot Bastin: School Psychology and Development in Context, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Janne Vanhalst: Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Marlies Maes: Youth Studies, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 12, 1-10

Abstract: Although it is assumed that loneliness in one relationship might put one at risk of experiencing loneliness in another relationship, this association has rarely been examined as such. In this longitudinal study, we examined the associations between peer- and parent-related loneliness in a sample of 3391 adolescents across three waves ( M age Wave 1 = 14.53; 59.3% female). Using random intercept cross-lagged panel models, parent- and peer-related loneliness were found to be stable over time and were concurrently related to each other. Moreover, the state of peer-related loneliness predicted the state of parent-related loneliness one year later. Thereby, the current study provides limited evidence of a carry-over effect between relation-specific types of loneliness.

Keywords: peers; parents; loneliness; random intercept cross-lagged panel model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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