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Verrastro, Valeria; Ritella, Giuseppe; Saladino, Valeria; Pistella, Jessica; Baiocco, Roberto; Fontanesi, Lilybeth – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2020
This study examines how family functioning, the parent-child relationship and personal factors are related to happiness in 1549 children aged 7 to 14 years old (53% females) in Italy. Children and pre-adolescents completed a set of questionnaires on self-rated happiness, self-concept and loneliness. At least one of their parents filled in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Relationship, Parent Child Relationship, Children
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Chalise, Hom Nath; Kai, Ichiro; Saito, Tami – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2010
The aim of this study was to analyze the situation of social support exchange among elderly men and women and to study the cross-cultural validity of predictors of loneliness in two Nepalese castes/ethnicities of older adults. Data for this study were taken from a cross-sectional study of the elderly at least 60 years old living in one ward of…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Older Adults, Measures (Individuals), Gender Differences
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Prezza, Miretta; Pacilli, Maria Giuseppina – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
A structural equation model was used to examine the role of autonomous mobility and play in public and semipublic places in childhood to predict adolescents' sense of community, fear of crime, and, through the mediation of these two last psychosocial factors, feelings of loneliness. Participants included 789 Italian students (469 females and 320…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Fear, Crime, Psychological Patterns