A commonly cited definition of loneliness belongs to Peplau and Perlman (1982) who defined loneliness as the distressing psychological experience caused by the gap between a person's desired social network and their real social network, qualitatively (deep intimate social network) or quantitatively (too few friends). Furthermore, it is a subjective experience that does not necessarily imply isolation, but rather the result of self-perceived discrepancies in social relationships (in Fitts et al., 2009; Wong, 2010; Çeçen, 2007; Miczo, 2004). ; Bernardon et al., 2011). It was Weiss (1974) who classified loneliness into two: emotional loneliness and social loneliness (in Wong, 2010), where emotional loneliness would be caused by a qualitative gap in relationships or by the lack of close and personal attachments. intimate and, respectively, social loneliness is thought to be caused by a quantitative divergence of social networks (Wong, 2010; Peplau and Perlman, 1982 in Fitts et al., 2009). Studies on loneliness have revealed that this construct would also be perceived differently depending on...