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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pers Soc Psychol. 2009 Dec;97(6):977–991. doi: 10.1037/a0016076

Table 5.

Table 5a: Association of LP Loneliness and FP Loneliness

LP Type
Nearby Friend Distant Friend Nearby Mutual Friend Nearby LP-Perceived Friend Coresident Spouse Non Coresident Spouse
Days/Week LP Currently
Lonely
0.29
(0.11)
−0.08
(0.05)
0.41
(0.13)
0.35
(0.30)
0.10
(0.04)
0.08
(0.05)
Days/Week LP Lonely in
Prior Wave
0.12
(0.05)
0.11
(0.05)
0.16
(0.09)
0.02
(0.08)
0.03
(0.02)
0.06
(0.05)
Days/Week FP Lonely in
Prior Wave
0.31
(0.13)
0.39
(0.09)
0.28
(0.14)
0.10
(0.05)
0.21
(0.04)
0.04
(0.05)
Exam 7 0.11
(0.09)
0.05
(0.07)
0.04
(0.16)
−0.07
(0.09)
0.08
(0.03)
0.01
(0.08)
FP’s Age 0.01
(0.01)
0.01
(0.01)
0.01
(0.01)
0.01
(0.01)
0.00
(0.00)
−0.01
(0.00)
FP Female 0.18
(0.09)
0.06
(0.08)
0.17
(0.14)
0.12
(0.14)
0.11
(0.03)
0.04
(0.08)
FP’s Years of Education 0.00
(0.01)
−0.01
(0.02)
0.01
(0.02)
0.05
(0.03)
0.00
(0.01)
−0.05
(0.02)
Constant −0.30
(0.43)
−0.04
(0.60)
−0.78
(0.60)
−0.89
(0.71)
0.48
(0.20)
1.65
(0.51)
Deviance 236 677 138 122 1575 275
Null Deviance 375 899 285 145 1734 290
N 472 1014 214 274 3716 592
Table 5b: Association of LP Loneliness and FP Loneliness

LP Type
Nearby Sibling Distant Sibling Immediate Neighbor Neighbor within 25M Neighbor within 100M Co-worker
Days/Week LP
Currently Lonely
0.00
(0.03)
−0.03
(0.01)
0.21
(0.09)
0.04
(0.02)
−0.05
(0.03)
0.00
(0.03)
Days/Week LP
Lonely in Prior Wave
−0.02
(0.02)
0.03
(0.01)
0.08
(0.06)
0.03
(0.02)
−0.02
(0.03)
−0.02
(0.02)
Days/Week FP Lonely
in Prior Wave
0.18
(0.05)
0.18
(0.04)
0.39
(0.19)
0.22
(0.04)
0.08
(0.06)
0.18
(0.05)
Exam 7 0.00
(0.05)
0.03
(0.04)
0.25
(0.13)
0.12
(0.06)
−0.01
(0.10)
0.00
(0.05)
FP’s Age 0.00
(0.00)
0.00
(0.00)
0.00
(0.00)
0.01
(0.00)
−0.01
(0.01)
0.00
(0.00)
FP Female 0.10
(0.05)
0.06
(0.04)
0.14
(0.12)
0.17
(0.06)
0.22
(0.09)
0.10
(0.05)
FP’s Years of
Education
−0.01
(0.02)
0.00
(0.01)
0.02
(0.04)
0.00
(0.02)
0.01
(0.02)
−0.01
(0.02)
Constant 0.82
(0.43)
0.71
(0.29)
−0.33
(0.68)
−0.01
(0.34)
1.02
(0.39)
0.82
(0.43)
Deviance 1065 3729 205 1618 5738 636
Null Deviance 1140 3954 366 1930 6278 665
N 2124 6168 364 1904 6888 1330

Coefficients and standard errors in parenthesis for linear regression of days per week FP feels lonely on covariates are shown. Observations for each model are restricted by type of relationship (e.g., the leftmost model includes only observations in which the FP named the LP as a “sibling” in the previous and current period, and the sibling is “nearby” – i.e. lives no more than 1 mile away). Models were estimated using a general estimating equation with clustering on the FP and an independent working covariance structure (Liang & Zeger, 1986; Schildcrout & Heagerty, 2005). Models with an exchangeable correlation structure yielded poorer fit. Fit statistics show sum of squared deviance between predicted and observed values for the model and a null model with no covariates (Wei, 2002).