TY - JOUR TI - The Sense of Loneliness and Social Maladjustment AU - Wojnarska, Anna AU - Korona, Katarzyna TI - The Sense of Loneliness and Social Maladjustment AB - The paper concerns the sense of loneliness and social maldjustment. The sense of loneliness, contrary to loneliness itself, results in negative mental and social consequences. The reasons behind the increasing sense of loneliness are social and moral changes, educational helplessness of the family and school, as well as replacing face-to-face interaction with media supported contacts. Personality factors that correlate with the sense of loneliness are neurotism, introversion, helplesseness, lower self- efficacy and lower self-esteem. Increasing sense of loneliness generates depression, suicidal attempts, aggression, multiple risk behaviour, and victimization. Suggested directions for practical action in diagnosis and social theraphy concentrate mainly on creating opportunities for forming satisfactory models of interpersonal relationships. VL - 2017 IS - Issue 28 (2017) PY - 2017 SN - 2080-9476 C1 - 2544-0519 SP - 175 EP - 191 DO - 10.4467/25439561.NP.17.063.8138 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/niepelnosprawnosc/article/poczucie-osamotnienia-a-nieprzystosowanie-spoleczne KW - sense of loneliness KW - loneliness KW - alienation KW - victimization KW - addiction KW - depression