This research aims at exploring the relationship between children's
loneliness and depression in the primary fourth class of the state schools
of Damascus. It also aims at indicating the differences between children's
in loneliness and depression
according to gender (Males and Females).
The sample of the study consisted of (814)child (418) males,(396)females
in the primary fourth class of the state schools of Damascus. This sample
was selected randomly by using a stratified random sample. The tools of
the study included tests of feeling of loneliness & feeling of depression
which were prepared by the researcher; these tools were applied on a
pilot sample and tested for validity and reliability.
The current research aimed to know the feeling of loneliness among the tenth grade
of the national centre for distinguished in Syria; as recent arrivals to the centre. They are
adolescents, who have special qualities common in terms of superiority
mental and
academic. The research also aimed to know the differences in the loneliness according to
the variables of sex, the city where the student’s family lives, the place where the student
spend the week-end and the student’s desire to join the centre. The sample consisted of
(67) students registered in the tenth grade for the academic year 2014-2015. Where the
number of the original community was (74). To reach the objectives of the research, the
scale of loneliness for ( شيبي، 2005 ) had been adopted. Resultants confirmed the presence of
high level of loneliness among students. There was not any impact to the variables of
research on the level of loneliness, except the desire to join the centre, where the student
who did not want join the centre themselves had the highest loneliness level than the
others.
This research aimed to know the level of a sense of loneliness among the elderly
residents in social care homes, and to know the differences in the degree of loneliness
between males and females, as it aimed to detect the differences in the sense o
f loneliness
depending on the variables; of social situation, and age. In This research it is used
Loneliness scale of preparation by the researcher. The researcher extracted the validity and
reliability for the scale of Loneliness. The scale is applied in social care homes in the cities
of Latakia and Tartous. The sample consisted of (32) elderly 12 males and 20 female. The
research is found the following results:
The level of a sense of loneliness is average, and there is no statistically significant
differences in the sense of loneliness between males and females, as too there are no
statistically significant differences in the sense of loneliness depending on the variables of
the age for the research sample, and there are statistically significant differences in the
sense of loneliness depending on the variables of the social situation.
