Loneliness in the Workplace: Construct definition and scale development

By Sarah Wright, C. Burt, K. Strongman. 2006

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Workplace loneliness, leader-member exchange and creativity: The cross-level moderating role of leader compassion (2017, background): “First, loneliness is always driven by interpersonal incompetence that makes people shy away from social opportunities (Wright et al., 2006).”
The Relationship between Social Climate and Loneliness in the Workplace and Effects on Employee Well-Being (2011, methodology): “The loneliness questionnaire (LAWS) which is used in this study is a multidimensional instrument [7].”
Linking core self-evaluation and emotional exhaustion with workplace loneliness: does high LMX make the consequence worse? (2019, background): “Research on workplace loneliness is pretty much initiated and guided by Wright and her colleagues (see Wright et al., 2006).”
Unravelling the antecedents of loneliness in the workplace (2020, background): “That is, loneliness is not only the existence of insufficient social relationships (Lam and Lau, 2012), the lack of good quality relationships at work (Wright et al., 2006), or the perceived relational gap between one’s actual versus desired relationships (Perlman and Peplau, 1984).”