Adolescents' loneliness in European schools: a multilevel exploration of school environment and individual factors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Loneliness has been recognized as a public health issue and has moved into a number of European countries' policy agendas. Literature examining loneliness in young people (and especially in adolescents) is scarce, but it does show that at this age feelings of loneliness have been increasing in recent decades and are detrimental for both adolescents' current and future well-being. In order to explain loneliness, current literature focuses generally on individual, rather than on broader, environmental characteristics. This study examines school associates of loneliness and compares their importance to those at the individual level because schools are the most important places in which adolescents are socially embedded. In addition, policy interventions on loneliness might

SUBMITTER: Schnepf SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10548635 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature