Compare the five great personality factors and loneliness of adolescents of single-parent families and several children

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Saghar Farshadfard and Maryam Kouroshnia (Department of Psychology, Marvdash Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran)

The purpose of this study was to compare five great factors of personality and loneliness of adolescents in single and multiple families of high schools in Shiraz in the academic year of 2015-2016.From these students, 250 students (98 boys & 152 girls) were selected by cluster samplingand tested the five major factors of the Neo character (Casta & MacCraey, 1989) and loneliness (Ashere & Wheeler, 1985).The results of the Manova test showed that there are no significant differences between the five major factors in the single-child and multi-agent groups. The results of independent T-test showed that there was no significant difference between loneliness in both single-child and multi-agent groups.