Measuring loneliness in later life: a comparison of differing measures

By Christina Victor, L. Grenade, D. Boldy. 2005

164 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e3b9d69197706d299980391920943e2eabbd935d

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Health

1. Keming Yang
2. Emilie Courtin
3. Martin Knapp
4. J. Twigg
5. W. Martin
6. Christina Victor
7. Netta Achdut
8. Tehila Refaeli

In Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

1. Keming Yang
2. W. Martin
3. J. Twigg
4. Emilie Courtin
5. Christina Victor
6. Martin Knapp

In Social Psychology

1. Keming Yang
2. J. Twigg
3. W. Martin
4. Emilie Courtin
5. Christina Victor
6. Martin Knapp

Citations in the corpus

• Interventions to reduce social isolation and loneliness among older people: an integrative review (2018, background): “Some studies used single-item indicators which may undermine the validity of results; however, research has indicated that single-item measures can correlate strongly with more complex measures (Victor et al. 2005).”
• Social isolation, loneliness and health in old age: a scoping review (2017, result): “Although previous studies have shown that a single-item measure correlates strongly with more sophisticated scales (Victor et al. 2005), recent research has emphasised the importance of contrasting different dimensions of loneliness (Coyle and Dugan 2012).”
• Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology (2015, background): “A key criticism of such measures is that that they will not elicit a ‘true’ response: they will generate only a ‘publicly acceptable’ response given the stigmatizing nature of loneliness (Victor et al., 2005).”
• The prevalence of and risk factors for loneliness among older people in China (2008, background): “Great Britain, Australia and Scandinavia), and to answer questions that make up composite scales (as in Australia and The Netherlands) (Victor et al. 2005b).”