[ الشعور بالوحدة النفسية لدى المسنين المقيمين بمؤسسة الرعاية الاجتماعية: دراسة ميدانية بمدينة مكناس، المغرب ]
Volume 46, Issue 4, October 2025, Pages 710–715
Fatima FAOUZI1, Mohammed IDMOULID2, and Ahmed ELBOUAZZAOUI3
1 Student, Psychology Department, Faculty of Arts, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
2 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters and Humanities Sciences, Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco
3 College Professor, Psychology Department, Faculty of Arts, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
Original language: Arabic
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The purpose of this study is to reveal the level of psychological loneliness experienced by older people residing in a social welfare institution and to identify gender differences among the study sample consisting of 20 elderly men and women. The study used the Russell loneliness scale adapted to the Arab context. The Welch’s t- test arithmetic means and standard deviations are used for statistical analysis. The results revealed a moderate level of psychological loneliness among the sample studied. They also showed no statistically significant gender differences. So, they do not support the study’s two main hypotheses.
Author Keywords: the psychological loneliness, the elderly, social welfare establishment, social isolation.
Volume 46, Issue 4, October 2025, Pages 710–715
Fatima FAOUZI1, Mohammed IDMOULID2, and Ahmed ELBOUAZZAOUI3
1 Student, Psychology Department, Faculty of Arts, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
2 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters and Humanities Sciences, Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco
3 College Professor, Psychology Department, Faculty of Arts, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
Original language: Arabic
Copyright © 2025 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to reveal the level of psychological loneliness experienced by older people residing in a social welfare institution and to identify gender differences among the study sample consisting of 20 elderly men and women. The study used the Russell loneliness scale adapted to the Arab context. The Welch’s t- test arithmetic means and standard deviations are used for statistical analysis. The results revealed a moderate level of psychological loneliness among the sample studied. They also showed no statistically significant gender differences. So, they do not support the study’s two main hypotheses.
Author Keywords: the psychological loneliness, the elderly, social welfare establishment, social isolation.
How to Cite this Article
Fatima FAOUZI, Mohammed IDMOULID, and Ahmed ELBOUAZZAOUI, “The feeling of psychological loneliness among elderly residents in a social welfare institution: Field study in Meknes city, Morocco,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 710–715, October 2025.
