Discussion on Item differences according to Ages and Gender

Topic Discussions Loneliness Measurement
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In the WA discussion group of Nina Goldman there was a discussion on the intercepts and significances of differences in specific items of the UCLA loneliness scales.

Papers cited were Measuring Loneliness in Different Age Groups: The Measurement Invariance of the UCLA Loneliness Scale - Margarita Panayiotou, Johanna C. Badcock, Michelle H. Lim, Michael J. Banissy, Pamela Qualter, 2023

Which had the UCLA 20 for a large sample. The data is shared in an OSF container.

OSF | Measuring loneliness in different age groups: The measurement invariance of the UCLA loneliness scale

Also shared was this paper

research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39248/1/Manuscript - UCLA-3.5.pdf