A commonly cited definition of loneliness is that of Peplau and Perlman (1982) who defined loneliness as the distressing psychological experience caused by the discrepancy between the desired social network and the real one, qualitatively ( intimate and deep social network) or quantitatively (too few friends). Furthermore, it is said to be a subjective experience that does not necessarily imply isolation, but is instead 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 is said to be caused by the qualitative discrepancy of relationships or the lack of close and intimate attachments and, respectively, social loneliness is said to be caused by the quantitative discrepancy of social networks (Wong, 2010; Peplau & Perlman, 1982 in Fitts et al., 2009). Studies on loneliness have found that this construct is also perceived differently...