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. 2020 Aug 5;76(7):1408–1414. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbaa109

Table 2.

Summary of Unweighted Correlations Between Different Loneliness Measures, by Country

Measures being compared Min Max Median Mean Countries with measures
CES-D Item vs. Single Item 0.386 (India) 0.555 (England) 0.450 0.472 Brazil, England, India, Ireland, the United States
CES-D Item vs. Three-Item Scale 0.399 (the United States) 0.509 (England) 0.401 0.436 England, India, Ireland, the United States
Single Item vs. Three-Item Scale 0.589 (Germany) 0.777 (Italy) 0.699 0.689 Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States
CES-D Item vs. de Jong Gierveld Scale 0.478 0.478 0.478 0.478 New Zealand
CES-D Item vs. Social Provisions Scale 0.384 0.384 0.384 0.384 New Zealand
de Jong Gierveld Scale vs. Social Provisions Scale 0.603 0.603 0.603 0.603 New Zealand

Notes: CES-D = Center for Epidemiological Sciences—Depression. See Supplementary Appendix Table C1 for detailed results; see Supplementary Appendix Table C2 for a summary of weighted results.