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SUBMITTER: Kyron MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10581951 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kyron Michael J MJ Houghton Stephen S Lawrence David D Page Andrew C AC Hunter Simon C SC Gunasekera Sashya S
Child psychiatry and human development 20220527 6
The purpose of this study was to produce a short-form measure of loneliness and assesses its prediction of depressive symptoms relative to a comprehensive measure. Western Australian adolescents completed the Friendship Related Loneliness and Isolation subscales of the Perth Aloneness Scale (PALs) three times over 18 months (T 1 n = 1538; T 2, n = 1683; T 3, n = 1406). Items were reduced while preserving predictability. Follow-up confirmatory factor analyses and predictive models with the reduce ...[more]