Subjective Loneliness and Psychological Well-Being of Adolescents with High Aggressiveness

Context and relevance. The problem of the younger generation aggressiveness does not lose its relevance, as the tendency of cruelty and physical violence among young people is increasing. The aim of the study was to identify the features of subjective loneliness and psychological well-being in adolescents with a high aggression level. The hypothesis was based on the assumption that adolescents have specific experiences of subjective loneliness and psychological well-being, which have different levels and correlations of indicators, unlike their peers with low levels of aggression. Materials and methods. The sample consisted of secondary school students (N = 76) aged 16-18 years (M = 17, SD = 0.7062), 42 male/34 female. The following methods were used: “Bass-Perry aggression level questionnaire” BPAQ (adaptation and validation by S.N. Enikolopov, N.P. Cybulsky); “Personal aggressiveness and conflict” (E.P. Ilyin, P.A. Kovalev); “Differential questionnaire of loneliness experience”, DOPO-3 (E.N. Osin, D.A. Leontiev); “Scale of psychological well-being” (K. Riff, adaptation by L.V. Zhukovskaya, E.G. Troshikhina). The results of the study revealed high values in terms of loneliness and low values in terms of well-being among people with a high level of aggression, in contrast to respondents with a low level of aggression. Differences in the relationships between aggression, loneliness, and psychological well-being were found in the two groups, and similar negative associations of problematic loneliness with positive relationships with others and general loneliness with psychological well-being in both groups. Conclusions. Adolescents with high and low levels of aggression have significant differences in all criteria of experiencing loneliness and psychological well-being. Aggression gives a stronger experience of loneliness and reduces the psychological well-being of the individual.