I'm lonely, can't you tell? Convergent validity of self- and informant ratings of loneliness

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 61, Issue , 2016, Pages 50-60

  Luhmann, Maike ^a   Bohn, Johannes ^b   Holtmann, Jana ^b   Koch, Tobias ^c   Eid, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convergent validity; Informant ratings; Life satisfaction; Loneliness; Multitrait multimethod measurement; Social connectedness; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957887502     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.02.002     Document Type: Article

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