Adolescent Loneliness and Social Skills: Agreement and Discrepancies Between Self-, Meta-, and Peer-Evaluations

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2406-2416

  Lodder, G M A ^a,f   Goossens, L ^b   Scholte, R H J ^a,c   Engels, R C M E ^a,d,e   Verhagen, M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Praktikon   (Netherlands)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION   (Netherlands)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bias; Discrepancies; Loneliness; Peer evaluations; Social skills

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; PERCEPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN RELATION; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL COMPETENCE;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONELINESS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY, ADOLESCENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL SKILLS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84963670111     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-016-0461-y     Document Type: Article

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