Document Type : Research Paper
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Soulmaz Dabiri The purpose of present study was to compare university student's general health with their academic achievement based on the degree of their loneliness. For this purpose, 214 university students (104 boys and 110 girls) were selected with random cluster sampling. The research instruments were loneliness scale and general health questionnaire.The Results showed that there is a significant difference between general health and academic achievement with consideration of the degree of loneliness. Participants with low and intermediate degree of loneliness had higher general health than participants with high degree of loneliness. Participants with intermediate degree of loneliness had higher general health than participants with high degree of loneliness.There was also a significant difference between somatic symptoms, anxiety, social dysfunction and depression's mean based on the degree of loneliness.
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