Social and demographic trends are placing an increasing number of adults at risk for
loneliness, an established risk factor for physical and mental illness. The growing costs of …

Loneliness affects well-being and has long-term negative impacts on physical and mental
health, educational outcomes, and employability. Because of those current and long-term …

Cyberbullying is a unique phenomenon, distinguished from traditional bullying by the speed
at which information is distributed, permanence of material and availability of victims. There …

Context No information is available on oncology patients' level of stress and symptom
burden during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Objectives To evaluate …

In this article I evaluated the psychometric properties of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (Version
3). Using data from prior studies of college students, nurses, teachers, and the elderly …

Several measures that assess loneliness have been developed for adults. Across three
studies, we investigated psychometric features of scores of different versions of the Rasch …

Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, is an ambivalent–albeit more positive than
negative–emotion. Nostalgia is infused with sociality, as it refers to important figures from …

Background Data is lacking on the association of interpersonal stressors and social isolation
with mental disorders and the mediating role of loneliness. Thus, we examined this …

The controversy with regard to using reverse or negatively worded survey stems has been
around for several decades; it is a practice of questionable utility intended to guard against …

Many self-report measures include some items worded in the direction opposite to that of
other items. These so-called reverse-worded (RW) items can reduce the reliability and …