Measuring Loneliness Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: The UCLA and de Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scales

By M. Penning, Guiping Liu, Pak Hei Benedito Chou. 2014

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Subfields: Health, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Health

1. Jenni Dykstra
2. Emilie Courtin
3. Martin Knapp
4. Netta Achdut
5. Tehila Refaeli

In Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

1. Jenni Dykstra
2. Emilie Courtin
3. Martin Knapp

In Social Psychology

1. Jenni Dykstra
2. Emilie Courtin
3. Martin Knapp

Citations in the corpus

• Social isolation, loneliness and health in old age: a scoping review (2017, result): “A recent assessment of both scales has shown the relative superiority of the de Jong Gierveld scale for the study of middle-aged and older adults (Penning et al. 2013).”
• New Ways of Theorizing and Conducting Research in the Field of Loneliness and Social Isolation (2018, background): “…with a direct question to loneliness (Victor, Grenade, & Boldy, 2005), adequate reliability and validity, both for the total scale and for the two subscales (de Jong Gierveld & Van Tilburg, 2010; Penning et al., 2014; Uysal-Bozkir, Fokkema, MacNeil-Vroomen, Van Tilburg, & De Rooij, 2015).”