ABSTRACT
Also, subjects completed the Rosenberg SelfEsteem Scale,8 and the Revised UCLA Loneliness
40 Scale.9 The Rosenberg scale has 10 items and has shown good estimates of validity and reliability. 5'8 The Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale measures feelings of loneliness experienced in interpersonal relationships and has been shown to have high test-retest reliability
45 [r =.sst and good validity in its correlation with measures of social support. 7
Results Means and standard deviations for each of these
tests are shown in Table 1. Students' ratings on the Life Orientation Test correlated positively and significantly
50 (p < .0001) with the Total adjustment score of the Student Adjustment to College Questionnaire (r = .34) and those of all four subscales: Personal Adjustment (r = .33), Social Adjustment (r = .36), Academic Adjustment (r = .36), and Goal Commitment (r = .35). Rat-
55 ings on optimism correlated significantly and positively with the Rosenberg scale (r = .51) and negatively with the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale (r = -.40).
