LIN ARTICLE CRITIQUE

LIN ARTICLE CRITIQUE

LIN ARTICLE CRITIQUE

Participants

Thirty-one school freshmen (13 women and 18 men), with the mean age of 18.7, from a personal Midwestern university were split up into two groups: those employed on a task solely (n'" 14) and those employed on a task inside an assembly of three or four persons (n'" 17). To avert participants from marking up with an ally, university teachers passed out sign-up slips in introductory psychology techniques that comprised one time slot per experimental time frame. The participants were granted untested borrowing that contributed to a course requirement. (GLEN 2000)

 

Measure

The Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale notices venations in solitude which happen in everyday life (Russell, et al., 1980) and is broadly utilized to quantify loneliness. This scale was split up into half to assess solitude prêt ask and post task. Items

2

3

4

6

9

10

11

13

18

And 19 from the revised scale were on the prêt ask questionnaire, while Items

1

5

7

8

12

14

15

16

17

and 20

Were on the post task questionnaire. While this method is odd and, to the information of this investigator, has not been finished before with this scale, an identical number of positively and contrary worded pieces constituted both formats. For demonstration Items 3 ("There is no one I (GLEN 2000)

 

GROUP PARTICIPATION AND LONELINESS

Can turn to") and 19 ("There are persons I can converse to") were on the prêt ask questionnaire, while 7 ("I am no longer close to anyone") and 20 ("There are persons I can turn to") were on the post task scale. Also, a navigate study with 10 alike respondents demonstrated an important association of .93 between the split-scale scores. This scale was one of some questionnaires administered to the participants before and after the task. The other questionnaires only assisted the reason of decreasing demand characteristics.

Procedure

Upon appearance, participants sat in one-by-one ...