Table 3.

Observed Correlations and Correlations Corrected for Attenuation^a Between Loneliness Scale Scores^b

	Direct questions	Social loneliness	Emotional loneliness	Existential loneliness in relationships
Social loneliness	0.48
	0.58
Emotional loneliness	0.70	0.47
	0.82	0.58
Existential loneliness in relationships	0.36	0.36	0.32
	0.46	0.48	0.42
Existential loneliness: meaninglessness in life	0.38	0.29	0.30	0.37
	0.48	0.38	0.32	0.51

^aCorrelations corrected for attenuation in italic.

^bAll observed correlations p < .001.