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eISSN: 2581-9615 || CODEN: WJARAI || Impact Factor 8.2 ||  CrossRef DOI

Research and review articles are invited for publication in March 2026 (Volume 29, Issue 3) Submit manuscript

Psychosocial influence of loneliness on secondary school students in Andoni Local Government Area, Rivers State, Nigeria

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Ukwuije Chinedu Kelechi *

Department of Educational Psychology, Guidance and Counselling, Faculty of Education, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
 
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2023, 19(03), 1110-1115
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2023.19.3.1878
DOI url: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2023.19.3.1878
 
Received on 05 August 2023; revised on 19 September 2023; accepted on 21 September 2023\
 
Loneliness is the absence of satisfying social relationships, accompanied by symptoms of psychological distress that are related to the actual or perceived absence. The study investigated the psychosocial influence of loneliness on secondary school students in Andoni Local Government Area, Rivers State, Nigeria. The sample of 382 students was used for the study using simple random sampling technique via balloting. Two research questions were answered while two hypotheses were tested in the study at 0.05 level of significance. The instrument for the study was a questionnaire tagged “Psychosocial Influence of loneliness Questionnaire (PILQ)”. The data collected were analyzed with mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while the hypotheses were tested with z-test. From the analysis, it was found out that poor family relation significantly influences loneliness among secondary school students in Andoni local government area. More so, the result of the study showed that self-esteem significantly influence loneliness among secondary school students in Andoni local government area. Based on the findings, it was recommended that there is need for personal social, group counselling and individual counselling in schools where students with challenged environment and personality are counselled. And students should develop positive self-esteem in life to assist them in their academic achievement.
 
Loneliness; Poor Family Relation; Self-Esteem; Secondary School Students. 
 
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Ukwuije Chinedu Kelechi. Psychosocial influence of loneliness on secondary school students in Andoni Local Government Area, Rivers State, Nigeria. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2023, 19(3), 1110-1115. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2023.19.3.1878

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