In Choderlos de Laclos’s Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782), the motif of solitude, from conventual seclusion to virtuous retreats and libertine isolation, is as much a contributor characters’ downfall dangerous liaisons advertised in novel’s title. Engaging eighteenth-century discourse on I argue that illustrates period’s redefinition private public spheres, Enlightenment’s secularization notion ...

A survey was conducted on 1035 persons constituting a semi-random age-structured sample of the populations of three areas in the west of Scotland. The object was to attempt to estimate the needs of this population for domiciliary services. A method was developed of classifying the subjects into 12 'care groups' based on two characteristics, those of 'potential need' and 'solitude'. 'Potential n...

The primary goals of this study were to test a conceptual model linking social approach and avoidance motivations, socially withdrawn behaviors, and peer difficulties in later childhood and to compare the socioemotional functioning of different subtypes of withdrawn children (shy, unsociable, avoidant). Participants were 367 children, aged 9-12 years. Measures included assessments of social mot...

This paper explores Wordsworthian solitude in Patrick Kavanagh’s poem Inniskeen Road: July Evening. The significance of the study lies revealing Romantic component poetry. main question research is to show how poet gradually moves from rejection into acceptance tradition, represented by solitude, as adopted and developed leading figures Romanticism such Wordsworth, Coleridge, others. To achieve...

This study aims at testing the relation between emerging adults’ preference for solitude, social competence, self-esteem on one side and depression other with mediating role of loneliness. The group is composed students that were studying various faculties state universities in Turkey 2019-2020 Academic Year determined by easily convenience sampling. 508 students, 279 whom female 229 male, part...