The major purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of
parent-child communication and the inclination of interpersonal relations on
the child’s loneliness. The participants were 588 children in 5th and 6th
grade of the elementary school which is located in Jeonbuk. Data were
collected by self-administered questionnaire method. Data were analyzed by
statistical techniques such as mean, frequency, percentile, t-test, pearson's
correlation, multiple regression analysis using SPSS/Win 12.0 program. The
major results of this study are as follows: First, female children’s
communication with their mother are more open that those of male children
and have ostentation-narcism stronger than that of male children. There is
no significant difference statistically in children’s loneliness by sex. Second,
it is indicated that the parent-child communication has negative correlation
with children’s loneliness and it also has close relations with sub-variables
in inclination of interpersonal relations. Third, when investigating how
parent-child communication and inclination of interpersonal relations have
influences on child’s loneliness, they have influences on child's loneliness
by the following order: social-friendly, mother-child communication,
father-child communication.