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Some normative, reliability, and factor analytic data for the revised UCLA Loneliness scale

1988; Wiley; Volume: 44; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/1097-4679(198803)44

1097-4679

Robert G. Knight, Barbara J. Chisholm, Nigel V. Marsh, Hamish P. D. Godfrey,

Health, psychology, and well-being

Normative statistics are provided for the UCLA Loneliness Scale based on the results of a sample of 978 adult subjects collected during a general population health survey. Factor analysis of the data revealed that the scale had a two factor structure; positively worded items loaded on one factor and negatively worded items on the other. Results from the factor analysis were used to construct two equivalent 10-item short forms of the scale. Previous findings that the scale is highly reliable were confirmed.