Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to examine the relationships among among Loneliness, Self-Esteem, Motivations For Online Communication, Self-Construals And Coping With Loneliness In Undergraduates. Participant were 179 undergraduate students in Bangkok. An average age was 20.24 (SD = 1.50) years old. Instrument included 1.Demography Questionnaire, 2.UCLA Loneliness Scale, 3.Self-Esteem Scale, 4.Motives For Online Communication Scale, 5.Self-Construal, Scale, 6.The Coping with Loneliness Questionnaire Descriptive Statistic and Pearsons Correlation coefficient and multiple linear regression were used. Findings reveal. There was a significant negative correlation between loneliness and self-esteem (r(177) = -.59, p < .01) online communication motivations for meeting people (r(177) = -.24, p < .01) and maintaining relationships (r(177) = -.28, p < .01) independent self-construal (r(177) = -.19, p < .01) positive coping with loneliness were positively correlated with loneliness (r(177) = .19, p < .01) there were no significant correlation between loneliness and online communication motivations social skills compensation motive (r(177) = -.12, p = .06) interdependent self-construal (r(177) = -.10, p = .09).Together The independent variable were able to predict loneliness in undergraduates and account for 42.3 (r2 = .40, p < .001) percent of the total of variance of loneliness