Loneliness: De Jong-Gierveld loneliness scale

In mudfold: Multiple UniDimensional unFOLDing

De Jong-Gierveld loneliness scale

Description

De Jong-Gierveld loneliness scale that consists of eleven ordinal items. Five of these items are positively formulated and six are negatively formulated. Each of the items has three possible response categories.

Usage

data(Loneliness)

Format

A data frame with 3987 observations on the following 11 variables.

A

: a column vector containing the ordinal responses on the statement:

"There is always someone I can talk to about my day to day problems (+)"

B

a column vector containing the ordinal responses on the statement:

"I miss having a really close friend (-)"

C

a column vector containing the ordinal responses on the statement:

"I experience a general sense of emptiness (-)"

D

a column vector containing the ordinal responses on the statement:

"There are plenty of people I can lean on in case of trouble (+)"

E

a column vector containing the ordinal responses on the statement:

"I miss the pleasure of company of others (-)"

F

a column vector containing the ordinal responses on the statement:

"I find my circle of friends and acquaintances too limited (-)"

G

a column vector containing the ordinal responses on the statement:

"There are many people that I can count on completely (+)"

H

a column vector containing the ordinal responses on the statement:

"There are enough people that I feel close to (+)"

I

a column vector containing the ordinal responses on the statement:

"I miss having people around (-)"

J

a column vector containing the ordinal responses on the statement:

"Often I feel rejected (-)"

K

a column vector containing the ordinal responses on the statement:

"I can call on my friends whenever I need them (+)"

Details

Each item in the scale has three possible levels of response, i.e., "no" (=1), "more or less" (=2), "yes" (=3). The data is a subset of the NESTOR study (see C. P. Knipscheer, J. d. Jong-Gierveld, T. G. van Tilburg, P. A. Dykstra, et al. (1995))

Source

G. J. De Jong and T. van Tilburg (1999). Manual of the loneliness scale. Amsterdam: VU University Amsterdam.

References

C. P. Knipscheer, J. d. Jong-Gierveld, T. G. van Tilburg, P. A. Dykstra, et al. (1995). Living arrange-ments and social networks of older adults.Amsterdam: VU University Amsterdam.

J. de Jong-Gierveld and F. Kamphuls (1985). The development of a rasch-type loneliness scale.Applied psychological measurement, 9(3):289-299.

G. J. De Jong and T. van Tilburg (1999). Manual of the loneliness scale. Amsterdam: VU University Amsterdam.

W. J. Post, M. A. van Duijn, and B. van Baarsen (2001). Single-peaked or monotone tracelines? onthe choice of an irt model for scaling data. InEssays on item response theory, pages 391-414.Springer.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(Loneliness)
str(Loneliness)

## End(Not run)

mudfold documentation built on Nov. 24, 2022, 5:09 p.m.