Lesson 17: Loneliness - Slide 10





Difficulties That Support Feeling Lonely
- People who think of loneliness as a defect have:
- Less skill in sharing about them self
- Less responsiveness to others
- A tendency to approach social encounters with cynicism and mistrust
- More likelihood of evaluating themselves and others in negative terms
- A tendency to expect others to reject them
Notes:
http://www.couns.uiuc.edu/Brochures/loneline.htm