Table 7.

Study 2: Nomological Nets of Different Measures of Loneliness (Self-Reports).

Variable	Rasch-Type Loneliness Scale a			UCLA Loneliness Scale		SI direct
	Total	Emotional	Social	8 items	3 items
Demography
Age	−.07a	−.15b	.04c	−.07a,b,c	−.15a,b	−.07a,b,c
Gender b	−.01a	.06 c	−.09d	.05a,c	.17b	.12b,c
Education	−.13 a	−.10 b	−.11 b	−.01b	−.01b	−.04a,b
Relationship Duration	−.06a	−.10 b	.01b	−.01a,b	−.06a,b	−.03a,b
Average Absolute Correlation c	.07	.10	.06	.04	.10	.06
Personality
Neuroticism	.46 a,d	.54 b	.22 c	.41 a	.53 b,d	.49 a,b
Extraversion	−.17 a	−.09c	−.20c,d	−.30b,d	−.17a,c	−.15a,c
Openness	.05a	.10b	−.02b	.04a,b	.07a,b	.08a,b
Agreeableness	−.22 a,f	−.14 c,e	−.24 c,d	−.27 a,d	−.09b,e	−.16b,c,f
Conscientiousness	−.20 a	−.19 b	−.15 b	−.15 a,b	−.18 a,b	−.15 a,b
Shyness	.23 a	.23 c	.16 c	.36 b	.28 a,b,c	.23 a,c
Sociability	−.14 a	−.01c	−.24b	−.30b	−.05a,c	−.08a,c
Self-Esteem	−.54 a	−.55 b	−.36 c	−.48 a,b	−.51 a,b	−.52 a,b
Affiliation Motive	−.12 a	.05c	−.26b	−.24b	.01c	−.05a,c
Depressiveness	.56 a	.60 b	.33 c	.55 a,b	.58 a,b	.58 a,b
Average Absolute Correlation c	.28	.27	.22	.32	.26	.26
Satisfaction With Domains of Life
Life	−.39 a	−.35 b	−.30 b	−.34 a,b	−.27 b	−.31 a,b
Education	−.31 a	−.30 b	−.21 b	−.23 a,b	−.23 a,b	−.25 a,b
Leisure	−.32 a	−.29 b	−.25 b	−.33 a,b	−.29 a,b	−.30 a,b
Friends	−.50 a,c	−.39 b,c	−.45 b	−.48 a,b	−.39 c,d,e	−.42 a,b,e
Family	−.29 a	−.25 b	−.23 b	−.23 a,b	−.22 a,b	−.24 a,b
Partner Relationship	−.28 a	−.27 b	−.21 b	−.24 a,b	−.23 a,b	−.29 a,b
Average Absolute Correlation c	.35	.31	.28	.31	.27	.30

Note. Different subscripts indicate a significantly different ( $p<.001$ ) correlation as judged by the results of a χ²-difference test with 1 degree of freedom. Italicized correlations have a p-value $\ge .01$ . SI = single item; RTLS = Rasch-Type Loneliness Scale.

^aDue to the high correlation between scores of the total score on the RTLS and its subfacets emotional and social loneliness, we ran different batches of models. In one batch, we compared the correlations between scores of the full RTLS and all other scales, and in the second batch, we compared the correlations between scores of the emotional and social loneliness facets with all other scales. Hence, we could not test whether correlations differ between scores of the full RTLS and its subfacets. ^bGender was coded as 1 = female and 0 = male/other. ^cAverage correlations were calculated based on the absolute z-transformed correlations. After averaging, z-scores were retransformed to $r$ .