Developing a measure of loneliness.
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Summary
The development of the UCLA Loneliness Scale, a short, 20-item general measure of loneliness is reported, which has high internal consistency and a test-retest correlation over a two-month period of .73.
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- article
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- 1978-06-01
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Keywords
Loneliness, Psychology, Internal consistency, Construct validity, UCLA Loneliness Scale
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