Title

Communicative Characteristics of the Lonely Person's Friendship Circle

Authors

Wendy Samter, Bryant UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published by Sage Publications in Communication Research Volume 19, Issue 2, pages 212-239.

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Publisher

Sage Publications

Publication Source

Communication Research

Abstract

The project described in this article examined several qualitative features of the friendship circles of lonely college students. It was expected that because communication is the cornerstone of young adult friendship, individuals whose social companions lacked important communicative attributes would experience poor peer relationships and, therefore, greater loneliness than individuals whose social companions possessed relevant communicative attributes.