Table 2.

Versions of the De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale (DJG-LS) used to measure loneliness (after bereavement).

DJG-LS	# Items	Range	Cut-off
DJG-LS (Stevens, 1995; Van Baarsen et al., 1999; De Groot et al., 2006; Onrust et al., 2010; Merz and De Jong Gierveld, 2016; Szabo et al., 2019)	11	0–11	0–2 not lonely; 3–8 moderately lonely; 9–11 strongly lonely;
DJG-LS Short scale (Spahni et al., 2015; Chow et al., 2019)	6	0–6	0–1 not lonely; 2–6 lonely