| dc.description.abstract | Although some studies investigated the relation between family support, self-esteem, life
satisfaction and loneliness, little is known about the causal relation between family support
and loneliness, mediated by self-esteem and life satisfaction. The present longitudinal study
used data from Wave 2 and Wave 3 from the Youth Got Talent (YGT) study collected in the
Netherlands. The sample included 939 adolescents aged between 16 and 24 years old (M =
17.7, SD = 1.57) who filled out a questionnaire in spring 2020 and fall 2020. Linear
regressions showed, contrary to our hypothesis, that family support did not predict less
loneliness. Additionally, we found that family support did not predict higher levels of selfesteem and life satisfaction. However, we still found that self-esteem and life satisfaction
predicted lower levels of loneliness. For implications, this means that both life satisfaction
and self-esteem could pay a bigger role in interventions for preventing loneliness. | |
