Table 2.

Homogeneity, reliability and congruent validity of the loneliness scale by origin

	Dutch	Moroccan	Turkish
Loevinger’s homogeneity (H)	0.48	0.30	0.44
Reliability (Cronbach’s alpha)	0.87	0.80	0.84
Reliability (GLB)	0.92	0.87	0.89
I sometimes feel lonely (Spearman’s rho)	0.53	0.61	0.61
I am among the … lonely people (Spearman’s rho)	0.51	0.58	0.55

N = 703