Measurement and Validity Characteristics of the Short Version of the Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults

By E. Ditommaso, Cyndi L. Brannen, Lisa A. Best. 2004

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Social Psychology

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Psychometric analysis of the short-form UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-8) in Taiwanese undergraduate students (2008, neutral): “…according to adult attachment studies, insecure attachment tendency, such as anxiety and avoidant attachment, had a positive relationship with loneliness (e.g., DiTommaso et al., 2004; DiTommaso, Brannen-McNulty, Ross, & Burgess, 2003; Florian, Mikulincer, & Bucholtz, 1995; Man & Hamid, 1998).”
Who uses Facebook? An investigation into the relationship between the Big Five, shyness, narcissism, loneliness, and Facebook usage (2011, methodology): “The psychometric properties of the SELSA-S are good: Concurrent and discriminant validity has been established, while internal consistency for the subscales ranges from .87 to .90 (DiTommaso et al., 2004).”
Reliability and validity of the Turkish Version of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-8) among university students (2011, methodology): “The results of the analysis showed that the correlation between ULS-8 and the overall score of SELSA-S was .29 (p .001), and the correlation for subscales were as follows: .35 (p .001) for social loneliness, .13 for family loneliness and .16 for romantic loneliness.”
‘I feel less lonely’: what older people say about participating in a social networking website (2010, background): “…population (and that of other developed countries) is ageing and, as such, the issue Introduction It is estimated that one in four older people experience loneliness (DiTommaso et al, 2004). networking intervention and evaluated the effect it had on older people’s experience of temporal loneliness.”
Different sources of loneliness are associated with different forms of psychopathology in adolescence (2011, methodology): “using a well-established loneliness measure (the Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults or SELSA; DiTommaso et al., 2004).”
The Relationship Between Social Support, Loneliness, and Subjective Well-Being in a Spanish Sample from a Multidimensional Perspective (2013, methodology): “3 Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults (SELSA-S) (DiTommaso et al. 2004)”
Music May Reduce Loneliness and Act as Social Surrogate for a Friend: Evidence from an Experimental Listening Study (2020, methodology): “To take into account individuals’ predispositions of the way people experience aloneness, trait loneliness was assessed with the Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults (SELSA-S; DiTommaso et al., 2004).”