An Investigation on the Loneliness of Chinese Secondary Vocational Students

Abstract

Loneliness is one of the important indicators of mental health. The loneliness of secondary vocational students plays an important role in inducing their cell phone dependence, interpersonal avoidance, and inappropriate campus love. Secondary vocational students are still in adolescence, which is the key period for the formation of values and world outlook. However, compared with their peers, secondary vocational students are facing the campus atmosphere of self-management in vocational colleges, the test of moving to professional posts earlier, and the challenge of moving faster to society, and adapting to society, so they are more likely to feel lonely. This study investigated the loneliness status of 706 students in two secondary vocational schools in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China. From 620 valid data, it can be seen that many students in secondary vocational schools have varying degrees of loneliness. Among them, 13.7% and 13.5% had higher emotional loneliness and social loneliness than ordinary people, while 3.1% and 7.4% had serious emotional loneliness and social problems; The scores of emotional loneliness and social loneliness of secondary vocational students were higher than those of emotional independence and social independence.