The UCLA Loneliness Scale, Version 3, was developed by Daniel Russell in 1996 from the earlier scale by Russell, Peplau and Cutrona. It measures how lonely you feel: closeness to other people, company and feeling understood. Each answer scores 1 to 4, nine statements are scored in reverse, and the total runs from 20 to 80. A higher score means more loneliness.
This is not a diagnosis
Loneliness is a feeling, not a disorder, and nearly everyone has it at times. The author gives no official cut-offs, so we show only the score.
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Source: UCLA Loneliness Scale, Version 3: Russell D. W., 1996, UCLA Loneliness Scale (Version 3): Reliability, validity, and factor structure, Journal of Personality Assessment 66(1), 20-40, DOI 10.1207/s15327752jpa6601_2. Items and scoring: PhenX Toolkit, protocol Social Isolation (181001), Copyright 1994 by Daniel W. Russell.
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