An Unclear Self Leads to Poor Mental Health: Self-concept Confusion Mediates the Association of Loneliness with Depression

525 © 2016 Guilford Publications, Inc. The first two authors contributed equally to this work. This research would not have been possible without funding from grants from NSF (BCS-11041118 to Nathan DeWall; BCS-719780 to Eli Finkel and BCS-0132398 to Caryl Rusbult) and Templeton Foundation (Grant 5158) to Caryl Rusbult. Address correspondence to Stephanie B. Richman, Department of Psychology, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA 16172 or Richard S. Pond, Jr., Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, 28403; E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]. UNCLEAR SELF RICHMAN ET AL.