A Study of Correlation Between Life Orientation, Feelings of Depression and Loneliness Among Young Adults Staying Away from Home

Abstract

Staying away from home accompanies not just challenges to cater to but a plethora of emotions as well. This study focuses on navigating through those emotions in correlation with the well-being of an individual. Considering the challenges to be conquered, the problems to be solved, and the changes to survive, the two factors/ variables, feelings of depression and loneliness, are reckoned with to study their correlation with life orientation. The need of this present correlational study is to understand the interrelation of the factors, and how the two factors, feelings of depression and loneliness affect the life orientation or vice versa in an individual, his daily life routine. This study mainly focuses on the population of young adults living away from home in consideration of their various reasons, lifestyles and the problems they face. The current study consists of a sample size of 62 young adults living away from home. The LOT-R, CES-D, and Loneliness Inventory scales were used to administer the individuals and the data was analyzed using Pearsons’ Correlation method. This further resulted in (-0.393) low correlation between life orientation and loneliness, (-0.407) moderate correlation between life orientation and depression, and (+725) high correlation between loneliness and depression.