Adverse Effects of Loneliness on Students

As a common emotion, loneliness is usually defined as the emotion produced when people do not meet expectations of interpersonal relationships, which mainly measured by UCLA Loneliness Scale. The main theories are social needs theory and cognitive processing theory. former holds that response to unsatisfied needs, while latter refers arises because individuals dissatisfied with perceived relationship. harm students reflected in study, negative will lead academic procrastination, decreased sense achievement learning, skills, anxiety, depression. In future, it necessary develop more objective measurement loneliness, find out its general mechanism, conduct intervention research on student groups.