Citation

Putnick DL, Uddin MK, Rohner RP, Singha B, Shahnaz I. Int. J. Psychol. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, International Union of Psychological Science, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/ijop.12609

PMID

31347709

Abstract

Loneliness is a significant public health issue that affects young adults. This investigation drew from interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory to understand how remembrances of parental rejection contributed to psychological maladjustment and loneliness in Bangladeshi college students (N = 300; 50% female). Students reported their remembrances of mothers' and fathers' acceptance-rejection, their current psychological maladjustment, and loneliness. Remembrances of rejection by parents in childhood were associated with psychological maladjustment (hostility/aggression, negative self-esteem, negative self-adequacy, emotional unresponsiveness, emotional instability, and negative worldview) for young adult men and women. Psychological maladjustment, in turn, was associated with feelings of loneliness in young adulthood for young men, but not women. Remembrances of parental rejection were also associated with greater hostility and aggression over and above general psychological functioning among both men and women.

FINDINGS are discussed in the context of different social and structural features of young adulthood for women and men in Bangladesh.

Published 2019. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.

Language: en

Keywords

Acceptance-rejection syndrome; Gender; Interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory; Loneliness; Psychological maladjustment