The Correlative Study of Sociability, Public Self-Consciousness, and Loneliness among University Students

• Main Authors: Su, Wei-Min, 蘇偉閔
• Other Authors: 林清文
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95219110149063035694

碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 輔導與諮商學系所 === 104 === 　　The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between sociability, public self-consciousness and loneliness among university. Public self-consciousness would moderate the association between sociability and loneliness. Gender difference in loneliness, sociability and loneliness was examined in the present study. 　　The sample consisted of 392 domestic university students. The instruments used in this study included “Loneliness Scale”, “Sociability Scale”, and “Public Self-Consciousness Scale”. The empirical data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, independent-sample t-test, and structural equation modeling. The findings of this study were as follows: 1.Loneliness of university students is low-intermediate. There are no gender difference loneliness among university students. 2.Sociability of university students is high-intermediate. There are gender difference on sociability among university students that reveals male students are more sociable than females. However, this result might be caused by item content of the scale and Chinese males’ social desirability responses to the scale. 3.Public self-consciousness of university students is high-intermediate. There are no gender difference on public self-consciousness among university students. 4.Sociability could predict university students’ loneliness that reveals the more sociable university students would report a lower level of loneliness. 5.There is no gender invariance on the predictive effect of sociability on their level of loneliness among university students that reveals the male university students’ relationship between sociability and loneliness is different from their female counterparts’. Furthermore, there is more strength of the female university students’ negative predictive effect of sociability on their level of loneliness than their male counterparts’. 6.There is moderating effect of public self-consciousness on the relationship between sociability and loneliness among university students that reveals there is more strength of the negative predictive effect of sociability on their level of loneliness among the more public-conscious university students. 7.There is no gender invariance on the moderating effect of public self-consciousness on the relationship between sociability and loneliness among university students that reveals the male university students’ moderating effect of public self-consciousness on the relationship between sociability and loneliness is different from their female counterparts’. Moreover, there is more strength of the male university students’ negative predictive effect of sociability on their level of loneliness among more public-conscious ones, but public self-consciousness could not predict their loneliness anymore. On the other hand, there is no moderating effect of public self-consciousness on the relationship between sociability and loneliness among the female university students, yet sociability and public self-consciousness could still predict their loneliness separately. 　　According to the findings above, this study provided suggestions for counseling practitioners and future research.