The scale below is a fictional tool. It was conceived by mixing different scientific tools to measure loneliness such as the UCLA Loneliness Scale Version 3 (Daniel Russell, 1996) and the De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale (De Jong Gierveld and Van Tilburg, 2006).

Instructions: The following statements describe how people sometimes feel. For each statement, please indicate how often you feel the way described by placing a check in the space provided.

Here is an example: How often do you feel happy? If you never felt happy, you would check “never”; if you always feel happy, you would check “always.”

Scoring: Items that are asterisked should be reversed (4 stands for 1, 3 for 2, 2 for 3, 1 for 4) and scores for each item then be summed together. Higher scores indicate greater degrees of loneliness.