Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale: psychometrics evidences in the Brazilian northeast
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https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v13i2.1885Keywords:
loneliness, university students, scale, validity, reliabilityAbstract
The research aimed to adapt the Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults (SELSA) to Brazil, gathering evidence of validity and accuracy. Two studies were carried out: in Study 1, 319 university students (Mage= 24.36) answered the SELSA and demographic questions. The exploratory factor analysis results indicated a three-factor structure (Family, Romantic and Social), explaining 70.38% of the total variance, with a Cronbach's alpha (α) ranging from .84 to .92; in Study 2, with 200 university students (Mage= 25.35) who answered the same instruments of the previous study. Confirmatory factorial analysis indicated adequate indicators (CFI = 0.98, TLI = .98, RMSEA = .07, Pclose = .06). Reliability was satisfactory (.77 to .93). It is concluded that the instrument presented good psychometric parameters, being an alternative tool for researchers investigating loneliness and its correlates, proposing new studies with a more representative sample.
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DiTomasso, E., & Spinner, B. (1993). The development and initial validation of social and emotional loneliness scale for adults (SELSA). Personality and Individual Differences, 14(1), 127-134. doi: 10.1016/0191-8869(93)90182-3.
Dunn, T. J., Baguley, T., & Brunsden, V. (2014). From alpha to omega: A practical solution to the pervasive problem of internal consistency estimation. British Journal of Psychology, 105(3), 399-412. doi: 10.1111/bjop.12046
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Fonsêca, P. N., Couto, R. N., Melo, C. C. V., Guimarães, L. A. C., & Pessoa, V. S. A. (2018). Redes sociais e solidão: relação e evidências psicométricas de escalas. Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia, 70(3), 198-212. Recuperado de http://pepsic.bvsalud.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-52672018000300014&lng=pt.
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Lara, S. A. D. (2014). ¿Matrices Policóricas/Tetracóricas o Matrices Pearson? Un estudio metodológico. Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento, 6(1), 39-48. Recuperado de http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333430869006
Lorenzo-Seva, U., & Ferrando, P. J. (2006). FACTOR: A computer program to fit the exploratory factor analysis model. Behavior Research Methods, 38(1), 88-91. doi: 10.3758/BF03192753
Marôco, J. (2014). Análise de equações estruturais: fundamentos teóricos, software e aplicações. (2ª Ed.). Pêro Pinheiro, Portugal: Report Number.
McDonald, R. P. (1999). Test Theory: A Unified Treatment. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Muthén, L. K., & Muthén, B. O. (2014). Mplus user´s guide (7th ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Muthén & Muthen.
Nunnally, J. C. (1978). Psychometric theory (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Ouakinin, S., & Barreira, D. P. (2015). Solidão e saúde mental. Acta Médica Porto, 28(1), 130-132. Recuperado de https://www.actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/6162/4224
Pasquali, L. (2016). TEP – Técnicas de Exame Psicológico: Os Fundamentos. (2ª ed). São Paulo, SP: Vetor editora.
Pikea, P., Parpa, E., Tsilika, E., Galanos, A., & Mystakidou, K. (2016) Psychometric Properties of the Greek-University of California, Los Angeles Loneliness Scale-Version 3 in a Sample of People with Human Immunodeficiency Virus. World Journal of AIDS, 6(4), 157-168. doi: 10.4236/wja.2016.64018
Pocinho, M., & Macedo, E. (2017). Solidão: Um Construto Complexo. Interações: Sociedade e as novas modernidades, 32, 53-66. Recuperado de http://www.interacoes-ismt.com/index.php/revista/article/view/399/415
Pocinho, M., Farate, C., & Dias, C. A. (2010). Validação Psicométrica da Escala UCLA-Loneliness para Idosos Portugueses. Interações, 18(10), 65-77. Recuperado de http://www.interacoes-ismt.com/index.php/revista/article/view/304
Reichl, C., Schneider, J. F., & Spinath, F. M. (2013). Relation of self-talk frequency to loneliness, need to belong, and health in German adults. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 241-245. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.09.003
Revelle, W. R. (Photographer). (2017). Psych: Procedures for Personality and Psychological Research. Software. Recuparado de https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=psych
Russell, D. (1982). The measurement of loneliness. In L. A. Peplau & D. Perlman (Eds.), Loneliness: A sourcebook of current theory, research, and therapy (pp. 81-104). New York: John Wiley.
Russell, D, Peplau, L. A., & Cutrona, C. E. (1980). The Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale: Concurrent and discriminate validity evidence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39(3), 472-480. Recuperado de https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7431205
Russell, D., Peplau, L. A., & Ferguson, M. L. (1978). Developing a measure of loneliness. Journal of Personality Assessment, 42, 290-294. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa4203_11
Salimi, A., & Bozorgpour, F. (2012). Percieved Social Support and Social-Emotional Loneliness. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 69, 2009-2013. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.12.158
Scalise, J., Ginter, E., & Gerstein, L. (1984). A multidimensional loneliness measure: The Loneliness Rating Scale (LRS). Journal of Personality Assessment, 48(5), 525-530. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa480512
Schmidt, N., & Sermat, V. (1983). Measuring loneliness in different relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44(5), 1038-1047. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.44.5.1038
Weiss, R. S. (1973). Loneliness: The experience of emotional and social isolation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Wilson, D., Cutts, J., Lees, I., Mapungwana, S., & Maunganidze, L. (1992). Psychometric properties of the revised UCLA Loneliness Scale and two short-form measures of loneliness in Zimbabwe. Journal of Personality Assessment, 59(1), 72-81. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa5901_7
Tabachnick, B. G., & Fidell, L. S. (2013). Using multivariate statistics (6th ed.) New Jersey: Pearson Education.
Tan, C., M. Pamuk, M., & Dönder, A. (2013). Loneliness and Mobile Phone. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Science, 103(26), 606-611. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.10.378.
Yarnoz-Yaben, S. (2008). Adaptación al castellano de la escala para la evaluación de la soledad social y emocional en adultos SESLA-S. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 8(1), 103-116. Recuperado de http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=5608010
Zinbarg, R. E., Revelle, W., Yovel, I., & Li, W. (2005). Cronbach’s α, Revelle’s β, and McDonald’s ωH): Their relations with each other and two alternative conceptualizations of reliability. Psychometrika, 70(1), 123-133. doi: 10.1007/s11336-003-
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Guimarães Amorim, L. A., Nunes da Fonsêca, P., Marcolino Alves Machado, G., Cardoso Guimarães, C. L., & Nascimento da Silva, P. G. (2019). Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale: psychometrics evidences in the Brazilian northeast. Ciencias Psicológicas, 13(2), 283–295. https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v13i2.1885
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