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Loneliness is a normative experience among children and adults as a part of their day-to-day occurrences. However, there is an urgent need for focused awareness, concerns, and interventions to help those children and adolescents who are often, and chronically, lonely and to reduce the risks for their becoming lonely adults. The goals of this chapter are not only to clarify personal characteristics that may predispose children to loneliness, but also to identify their distinctive assets that may empower them in challenging times, or even prevent their social pains. Loneliness reflects the mismatch between children’s social needs and interpersonal desires, and their perceived social environments. Loneliness, rather than peer rejection per se, appears to coincide with emotional distress – as reported by Qualter and Munn’s study (2002), which differentiated between three groups of children: children, who were rejected by their peers, yet did not feel lonely; children who felt lonely but were not rejected by their group; and rejected children who also reported experiencing loneliness. This differentiation focused attention on the need for an in-depth understanding of differentiated risk factors that predict social agonies.

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Margalit, M. (2010). Abilities, Difficulties, and Developmental Perspectives. In: Lonely Children and Adolescents. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6284-3_2

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