| Summary: | 碩士 === 國防大學政治作戰學院 === 社會工作碩士班 === 99 === Loneliness silently intrudes into our mind, and there is nothing we can do to get rid of it. When it comes to those teenagers who are experiencing a radically changing pe-riod, we should emphasize their sense of loneliness resulted from their parent-child re-lationship and peer relationship. Therefore, this thesis discusses the parent-child rela-tionship, peer relationship, and loneliness of teenagers from different backgrounds, aiming to provide useful references for high school educators, related authorities, and parents.
Adopting both Questionnaire Survey, a quantitative research method, and Focus Group Interview, a qualitative research method, this thesis concludes in 4 major results in the followings:
1.Teenagers from different backgrounds have obvious differences in parent-child rela-tionship. Democratic and autocratic parents have better parent-child relationships than those who ignore their children.
2.Teenagers from different backgrounds have obvious differences in peer relationship. Girls seldom imitate their peers and neither do teenagers grown up in extended fam-ilies.
3.Teenagers from different backgrounds have obvious differences in loneliness. Freshmen seldom feel lonely because of lacking companies compared with juniors, and the former can more easily acquire supports from their family members and a sense of belongingness than the latter. Teenagers from nuclear families are more inclined to feel lonely and helpless compared with those from other types of families. In contrast, teenagers from extended families tend to feel a sense of belongingness to their family than those from other types of families. As to those from demo-cratic families, they are more likely to feel lonely and helpless compared with those from autocratic families. However, teenagers from democratic and autocratic fam-ilies scarcely feel lonely because they can get a sense of belongingness to their family compared with those with ignorant parents who never pay attention to their children.
4.There is an evident correlation among parent-child relationship, peer relationship, and loneliness. The results show that the better parent-child relationship as well as peer relationship a teenager has, the less likely he or she will be to feel lonely.
Keywords: correlated study, parent-child relationship, peer relationship, a sense of lone-liness
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