568 responses from 71 respondents to 8 items.
One of 3 tables from the same source; this one is the ucla_loneliness table. The others are listed under Related tables.
| 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 |
This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, gan_2015_nursing_home.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.
| Column | What it is | Source column |
|---|---|---|
| IRW standard columns | ||
id | IRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task). | num |
item | IRW standard Item identifier. | made in the build script |
resp | IRW standard Response value. | made in the build script |
| Respondent covariates | ||
cov_age | Covariate | Age |
cov_education | Covariate | Education |
cov_gender | Covariate | Gender |
cov_illness_count | Covariate | illness |
cov_marriage | Covariate | Marriage |
What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.
Or load it directly in R or Python:
# R (no account needed)
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("gan_2015_ucla_loneliness")
# Python (needs a free Redivis account)
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("gan_2015_ucla_loneliness")
@article{Gan_2015, title={Rumination and Loneliness Independently Predict Six-Month Later Depression Symptoms among Chinese Elderly in Nursing Homes}, volume={10}, ISSN={1932-6203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137176}, DOI={10.1371/journal.pone.0137176}, number={9}, journal={PLOS ONE}, publisher={Public Library of Science (PLoS)}, author={Gan, Pei and Xie, Yan and Duan, Wenjie and Deng, Qing and Yu, Xiuli}, editor={Laks, Jerson}, year={2015}, month=Sept, pages={e0137176} }
| IRW version | v540 |
|---|---|
| Redivis dataset | item_response_warehouse_3 v13.0 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/gpg7-sg87 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v13.0 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v37.0 |