568 responses from 71 respondents to 8 items.
| Description | UCLA Loneliness Scale (short form), Chinese elderly nursing home residents |
|---|---|
| Reference | Gan, P., Xie, Y., Duan, W., Deng, Q., & Yu, X. (2015). Rumination and loneliness independently predict six-month later depression symptoms among Chinese elderly in nursing homes. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0137176. |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0137176 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Source data | https://plos.figshare.com/articles/dataset/_Rumination_and_Loneliness_Independently_Predict_Six_Month_Later_Depression_Symptoms_among_Chinese_Elderly_in_Nursing_Homes_/1535084 |
| Responses | 568 |
|---|---|
| Respondents | 71 |
| Items | 8 |
| Response categories | 4 |
| Responses per respondent | 8 |
| Responses per item | 71 |
| Density | 1 |
| Longitudinal | FALSE |
| age range | Elderly (minimum age >50) |
|---|---|
| sample | Clinical |
| measurement tool | Survey/questionnaire |
| item format | Likert Scale/selected response |
| primary language(s) | chi |
This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.
| Instrument | UCLA Loneliness Scale, 8-item short form (ULS-8; Hays & DiMatteo, 1987) |
|---|---|
| Mean words per item | 1 |
| Mean characters per item | 2 |
| Mean characters per response | 6.500 |
| Flesch-Kincaid grade level | -3.400 |
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Or load it directly in R or Python:
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("gan_2015_ucla_loneliness")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("gan_2015_ucla_loneliness")
| IRW version | v393 |
|---|---|
| Redivis dataset | item_response_warehouse_3 v7.0 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/pqqn-pm43 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v7.0 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v23.0 |