The Relationship between Interpersonal Trust and Loneliness of University Students: The Mediating Role of Personality Hardiness

Objective: To understand the status quo of university students' personality hardiness, interpersonal trust and loneliness, and to explore the relationship between those three attributes. - Methods: A total of 332 university students in Guangdong province were selected as the research objects, and selected personality hardiness measurement scale, interpersonal trust scale and the UCLA Loneliness Scale (the third edition) as research tools.- Results: University students' total level of persistence, responsibility, challenge capability and hardiness, and loneliness, interpersonal trust were significantly different in gender variables; the levels of persistence and hardiness of university students were significantly different in grade variables; The responsibility and the capacity of challenge of university students were significantly different in the leadership roles students carried out; The interpersonal trust and challenge, control and hardiness have shown a significant negative correlation; Loneliness has shown a significant negative correlation with personality hardiness in every dimension; Interpersonal trust and loneliness are significantly positive related; The personality hardiness has a mediating role between interpersonal trust and loneliness, with the effect accounted for 10.9% of the total effect. - Conclusion: The personality hardiness of university students plays a part of mediating role in the relationship between interpersonal trust and loneliness.