Open AccessMeasuring Older Adult Loneliness Across Countries
Author(s) -
Lauren Newmyer,
Ashton M. Verdery,
Rachel Margolis,
Léa Pessin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journals of gerontology. series b, psychological sciences and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1758-5368
pISSN - 1079-5014
DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbaa109
Subject(s) - loneliness , spouse , psychology , construct validity , construct (python library) , health and retirement study , scale (ratio) , test (biology) , gerontology , clinical psychology , demography , psychometrics , social psychology , medicine , geography , computer science , paleontology , cartography , sociology , anthropology , biology , programming language
The topic of older adult loneliness commands increasing media and policy attention around the world. Are surveys of aging equipped to measure it? We assess the measurement of loneliness in large-scale aging studies in 31 countries by describing the available measures, testing correlations between them, and documenting their construct validity.