Psychological Loneliness and Its Relationship to the Big Five Personality Traits

Abstract

This study aims to reveal the predictive relationship between feelings of loneliness and the Big Five personality traits among a sample of students from Al-Marqab University. The sample size was (100) male and female students, selected randomly using equal distribution. Two scales were used: one of them is the Feeling of Loneliness Scale, developed by (Russell, 1980). The test was prepared in Arabic by Abdul Raqib Ahmed Al-Bahiri (1985). The other is the Big Five Personality Factors Scale prepared by (Costa & Macre,1995) (translated into Arabic by Al-Ansari, 1997).

In an attempt to identify differences in the performance of the sample members attributable to the variables of gender and specialization, the sample was subjected to a psychometric study that met the conditions of validity and reliability. After analyzing the study data and testing The hypotheses, the results showed: that there are no statistically significant differences between performance on the Big Five personality traits scale, as well as performance on the psychological loneliness scale, attributable to the two variables (gender - specialization).

Also, the feeling of psychological loneliness can be predicted through one of the Big Five personality traits, which is (extroversion), while there is an inverse negative relationship between psychological loneliness and the Big Five personality traits, i.e., the greater the feeling of psychological loneliness, the fewer the Big Five personality traits and vice versa.