Homeless Youth and Loneliness
Loneliness is the subjective state that characterizes broken relations with significant persons and stigmatization by larger society. Loneliness can be considered a complicated construct among homeless youth. Its role in the maintenance or erosion of psychological well-being among homeless youth is not clearly understood. Despite a homeless youth’s best efforts to seek and maintain positive relationships with peers, the lifestyle of the streets is inherently transient. As such, even the most socially competent homeless youth will find it difficult to build and maintain important supportive relationships on the streets.