Reliability and validity of the Danish version of the UCLA Loneliness Scale

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1359-1366

  Lasgaard, Mathias ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Factor analysis; Loneliness; Rating scales; Reliability; UCLA; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947177670     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.10.013     Document Type: Article

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