reinwarth_2023_loneliness3

7,352 responses from 2,465 respondents to 3 items.

About this table

Description3-item brief loneliness scale, representative German population sample, N=2465.
ReferenceReinwarth AC, Ernst M, Krakau L, Brahler E, Beutel ME (2023). Screening for loneliness in representative population samples: Validation of a single-item measure. PLOS ONE 18(2):e0279701.
DOI10.1371/journal.pone.0279701
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0279701

Size and shape

Responses7,352
Respondents2,465
Items3
Response categories5
Responses per respondent2.983
Responses per item2450.667
Density0.994
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

age rangeMixed
child age (for child-focused studies)Adolescent (12-18y)
measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)ger

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

InstrumentLoneliness Scale-SOEP (LS-S), German three-item loneliness scale (Richter & Weinhardt, 2013), German version of the UCLA Three-Item Loneliness Scale (Hughes et al., 2004)
Mean words per item3
Mean characters per item20.333
Mean characters per response5.600
Flesch-Kincaid grade level6.558

Columns

cov_agecov_educationcov_gendercov_marital_statusiditemresp

Get the data

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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("reinwarth_2023_loneliness3")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("reinwarth_2023_loneliness3")

Version and provenance

IRW versionv393
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_3 v7.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/pqqn-pm43
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv7.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v23.0