Correlates of loneliness among adolescent: A psychological investigation

The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of loneliness, essential needs during education, and relationships between loneliness, essential needs, and characteristics of higher technical education students. A sample comprising 721 students participated in the study. The mean age was 21.58 (SD = 1.73) with a range from 18 to 25. The majority of the students were female (70.6%) and were living in hostel (67.5%) with low (87.8%) income, away from their parents.