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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 4, 565-571 (1981)
DOI: 10.1177/014616728174007
© 1981 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Coping with Loneliness

The Impact of Causal Attributions

Tracey A. Revenson

New York University

This study identifies a set of strategies that people use to cope with loneliness and examines causal attributions for loneliness as predictors of coping behavior. Subjects were 128 adults who completed a questionnaire including the NYU Loneliness Scale, two attributional measures, and a modification of the Ways of Coping Scale. A distinction was made between problem-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies. Internal attributions for loneliness were found to be related to the intensity of coping efforts, but not to the type of strategy used (that is, problem-focused vs. emotion-focused).


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