Loneliness Across Adolescence: Associations with Social Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms KU Leuven
Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to developing feelings of loneliness and these feelings of loneliness often co-occur with social anxiety symptoms and depressive symptoms (Epkins & Heckler, 2011; Zahn-Waxler, Klimes-Dougan, & Slattery, 2000). Each of these internalizing problems is associated with a wide range of negative outcomes in multiple domains of adolescents’ lives (Heinrich & Gullone, 2006; Kashdan & Herbert, ...