Factor structure of the Jong Gierveld Loneliness scale in Spanish elderly adults

  1. Buz Delgado, José
  2. Urchaga Litago, José David
  3. Polo González, María Eugenia
Revista:
Anales de psicología

ISSN: 0212-9728 1695-2294

Año de publicación: 2014

Volumen: 30

Número: 2

Páginas: 588-596

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.6018/ANALESPS.30.2.148371 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Anales de psicología

Referencias bibliográficas

  • Abad, J. F., Olea, J., Ponsoda, V., & García, C. (2011). Medición en Ciencias Sociales y de la Salud. Madrid: Síntesis.
  • Adams, G., Anderson, S. L., & Adonu, J. K. (2004). The cultural grounding of closeness and intimacy. In D. Haskek & A. Aron (Eds.), Handbook of Closeness and Intimacy (pp. 321-339). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Buz, J., & Perez-Arechaederra, D. (in press). Psychometric properties and measurement invariance of the Spanish version of the 11-item de Jong Gierveld loneliness scale. International Psychogeriatrics.
  • Ayalon, L., Shiovitz-Ezra, S., & Yuval, P. (2012). No place like home? Potential pathways to loneliness in older adults under the care of a livein foreign home care worker. The Journal of Psychology, 146, 189-200.
  • Bentler, P. M. (1990). Comparative fit indexes in structural models. Psychological Bulletin, 107, 238-246.
  • Boomsma, D. I., Cacioppo, J. T., Muthén, B., Asparouhov, T., & Clark, S. (2007). Longitudinal genetic analysis for loneliness in Dutch twins. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 10, 267-73.
  • Brown, T. (2003). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire: Multiple factors or method effects? Behaviour Research and Therapy, 41, 1411-1426.
  • Byrne, B. M. (2001). Structural Equation Modeling with AMOS: Basic Concepts, Applications and Programming. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Cacioppo, J. T., Hughes, M. E., Waite, L. J., Hawkley, L. C., & Thisted, R. A. (2006). Loneliness as a specific risk factor for depressive symptoms: Cross sectional and longitudinal analyses. Psychology and Aging, 21, 140-151
  • Cattan, M., White, M., Bond, J., & Learmouth, A. (2005). Preventing social isolation and loneliness among older people: a systematic review of health promotion interventions. Ageing and Society, 25, 41-67.
  • Costello, A. B., & Osborne, J. W. (2005). Best practices in exploratory factor analysis: Four recommendations for getting the most from your analysis. Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation, 10, 1-9.
  • Cukrowicz, K. C., Cheavens, J. S., van Orden, K. A., Ragain, R. M., & Cook, R. L. (2011). Perceived burdensomeness and suicide ideation in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 26, 331-338.
  • Demakakos, P., Nunn, S., & Nazroo, J. (2010). Loneliness, relative deprivation and life satisfaction. In J. Banks, E. Breeze, C. Lessof, & J. Nazroo (Eds.), Retirement, health and relationships of the older population in England: The 2004 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (pp. 297-338). London: The Institute for Fiscal Studies.
  • de Jong Gierveld, J., & Hagestad, G. O. (2006). Perspectives on the integration of older men and women. Research on Aging, 28, 627-637.
  • de Jong Gierveld, J. & Kamphuis, F. H. (1985). The development of a Raschtype loneliness scale. Applied Psychological Measurement, 9, 289-299.
  • de Jong Gierveld, J., & van Tilburg, T. G. (1992). Triangulatie in operationaliseringsmethoden. In G. J. N. Bruinsma & M. A. Zwanenburg (Eds.), Methodologie voor Bestuurskundigen: Stromingen en Methoden (pp. 273-298). Muiderberg: Coutinho.
  • de Jong Gierveld, J., & van Tilburg T (1999). Living arrangements of older adults in the Netherlands and Italy: Coresidence values and behaviour and their consequences for loneliness. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 14, 1-24.
  • de Jong Gierveld, J., & van Tilburg, T. G. (2010). The de Jong Gierveld short scales for emotional and social loneliness: tested on data from 7 countries in the UN generations and gender surveys. European Journal on Ageing, 7, 121-130.
  • de Jong Gierveld, J., & van Tilburg, T. G. (2011). Manual of the Loneliness Scale 1999. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit, Department of Social Research Methodology. Recuperado de http://home.fsw.vu.nl/TG.van.Tilburg/manual_loneliness_scale_1999.html
  • de Jong Gierveld, J., van Tilburg, T. G., & Dykstra, P. A. (2006). Loneliness and social isolation. In A. Vangelisti & D. Perlman (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships (pp. 485-500). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Diener, E., Emmons, R., Larsen, J., & Griffin, S. (1985). The satisfaction with life scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 49, 71-75.
  • Dykstra, P. A. (2009). Older adult loneliness: Myths and realities. European Journal on Ageing, 6, 91-100.
  • Dykstra, P. A., & Fokkema, T. (2007). Social and emotional loneliness among divorced and married men and women: Comparing the deficit and cognitive perspective. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 29, 1-12.
  • Ferrando, P. J., & Anguiano-Carrasco, C. (2010). El análisis factorial como técnica de investigación en Psicología. Papeles del Psicólogo, 31, 18-33.
  • Fokkema, C. M., de Jong Gierveld, J., & Dykstra, P. (2012). Crossnational differences in older adults loneliness. The Journal of Psychology, 146, 201-228.
  • Goodwin, R., Cook O., & Yung, Y. (2001). Loneliness and life satisfaction among three cultural groups. Personal Relationships, 8, 225-230.
  • Grygiel, P., Humenny, G., Rebisz, Switaj, P., & Sikorska, J. (2012). Validating the Polish adaptation of the 11-item de Jong Gierveld loneliness scale. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. doi: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000130
  • Hayton, J. C., Allen, D. G., & Scarpello, V. (2004). Factor retention decisions in exploratory factor analysis: A tutorial on parallel analysis. Organizational Research Methods, 7, 191-205.
  • Hawkley, L. C., Preacher, K., & Cacioppo, J. (2010). Loneliness impairs daytime functioning but not sleep duration. Health Psychology, 29, 124-129.
  • Heylen, L. (2010). The older, the lonelier? Risk factors for social loneliness in old age. Ageing and Society, 30, 1177-1196.
  • Horn J. L. (1965). A rationale and a test for the number of factors in factor analysis. Psychometrika. 30, 179-185.
  • Hoyle, R. H., & Panter, A. T. (1995). Writing about structural equation models in structural equation modeling. In R. H. Hoyle (Ed.), Structural Equation Modeling: Concepts, Issues, and Applications (pp. 158-176). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Hu, L. T., & Bentler, P. M. (1998). Fit indices in covariance structure modelling: sensitivity to underparemeterized model misspecification. Psychological Methods, 3, 424-453.
  • Iecovich, E. (2013). Psychometric properties of the Hebrew version of the de Jong Gierveld loneliness scale. Educational Gerontology, 39, 12-27.
  • IMSERSO (2008). Informe 2008. Las personas mayores en España. Datos estadísticos y por comunidades autónomas. Tomo I. Madrid: IMSERSO.
  • James, L. R., Mulaik, S. S., & Brett, J. M. (1982). Causal analysis: Assumptions, models and data. Beverly Hills: Sage.
  • Jöreskog, K. G. (1977). Factor analysis by leastsquares and maximumlikelihood methods. In K. Enslein, A. Ralston & H. S. Wilf (Eds.): Statistical Methods for Digital Computers (pp. 125-153). New York: Wiley.
  • Kunts, M., Bogaerts, S., & Winkel, F. W. (2010). Domestic violence and mental health in a Dutch community sample: The adverse role of loneliness. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 20, 419-425.
  • Leung, G. T., de Jong Gierveld, J., & Lam, L. C. (2008). Validation of the Chinese translation of the 6-item de Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale in elderly Chinese. International Psychogeriatrics, 20, 1262-72.
  • Liu, L. J., & Guo, Q. (2008). Loneliness and healthrelated quality of life for the empty nest elderly in the rural area of a mountainous county in China. Quality of Life Research, 16, 1275-1280.
  • Long, M. V., & Martin, P. (2000). Personality, relationship closeness and loneliness of the oldest old and their children. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 55B, 311-319.
  • Lorenzo-Seva, U., & Ferrando, P. J. (2006). FACTOR: A computer program to fit the exploratory factor analysis model. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 38, 88-91.
  • Masi, C. M., Chen, H. Y., Hawkley, L. C., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2011). A metaanalysis of interventions to reduce loneliness. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, 219-266.
  • Merz, E. M., Schuengel, C., & Schulze, H. J. (2009). Intergenerational relations across 4 years: Subjective wellbeing is affected by quality, not by support exchange. The Gerontologist, 49, 536-548.
  • Momtaz, Y. A., Hamid, T. A., Yusoff, S., Ibrahim, R., Chai, S. T., Yahana, N., & Abdullah, S. S. (2012). Loneliness as a risk factor for hypertension in later life. Journal of Aging and Health, 24, 696-710.
  • Moorer, P., & Suurmeijer, T. P. (1993). Unidimensionality and cumulativeness of the loneliness scale using Mokken scale analysis for polychotomous items. Psychological Reports, 73, 1324-1326.
  • Pavot, W., & Diener, E. (2008). The satisfaction with life scale and the emerging construct of life satisfaction. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 3, 137-152.
  • Peplau, L. A., & Perlman, D. (1982). Perspectives on loneliness. In L. A. Peplau y D. Perlman (Eds.), Loneliness: A Sourcebook of Current Theory, Research and Therapy (pp. 1-18). New York: John Wiley.
  • Pinquart, M., & Sörensen, S. (2001). Influences on loneliness in older adults: a metaanalysis. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 23(4), 245-246.
  • Prieto, M. E., Forjaz, M. J., Fernández, G., Rojo, F., & Martínez, P. (2011). Factors associated with loneliness of noninstitucionalized and institucionalized older adults. Journal of Aging and Health, 23, 177-194.
  • Rodríguez-Mosquera, P. M., Manstead, A. S. R., & Fischer, A. H. (2002). Honour in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. Journal of Crosscultural Psychology, 33, 1, 16-36.
  • Rokach, A. (2007). The effect of age and culture on the causes of loneliness. Social Behavior and Personality, 35, 169-186.
  • Rokach, A. (2012). Loneliness updated: An introduction. The Journal of Psychology, 146, 1-6.
  • Russell, D., Peplau, L.A., & Ferguson, M. L. (1978). Developing a measure of loneliness. Journal of Personality Assessment, 42, 290-294.
  • Sánchez, M. M., de Jong Gierveld, J., & Buz, J. (2012). Loneliness and the exchange of social support among older adults in Spain and the Netherlands. Ageing and Society. doi:10.1017/S0144686X12000839
  • Sansoni. J., Marosszeky, N, Sansoni, E., & Fleming, G. (2010). Final report: Effective assessment of social isolation. Centre for Health Service Development: University of Wollongong, Australia.
  • Shaw, D. G., Huffman, M. D., & Haviland, M. G. (1987). Grouping continuous data in discrete intervals: Information loss and recovery. Journal of Educational Measurement, 24, 167-173.
  • Shiovitz-Ezra, S., & Ayalon, L. (2012). Use of direct versus indirect approaches to measure loneliness in later life. Research on Aging, 34, 572-591.
  • Suh, E., Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Triandis, H. C. (1998). The shifting basis of life satisfaction judgments across cultures: Emotions versus norms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 482-493.
  • Sun, F., Waldron, V., Gitelson, R., & Ho, C. (2012). The effects of loss of loved ones on life satisfaction among residents in a Southwest Retirement Community: The mediating roles of social connectedness. Research on Aging, 34, 222-245.
  • Sundström, G., Fransson, E., Malmberg, G., & Davey, A. (2009). Loneliness among older Europeans. European Journal of Ageing, 6, 267-276.
  • Tilvis, R. S., Laitala, V., Routasalo, P. E., & Pitkälä, K. H. (2011). Suffering from loneliness indicates significant mortality risk of older people. Journal of Aging Research, 1-5. doi:10.4061/2011/534781
  • van Baarsen, B., Snijders, T. A., Smit, J., & Knipscheer. C. P. M. (1999). Do personal conditions and circumstances surrounding partner loss explain loneliness in newly bereaved older adults. Ageing and Society, 19, 441-469.
  • van Baarsen, B., Snijders, T. A., Smit, J., & van Duijn, M. A. (2001). Lonely but not alone: emotional isolation and social isolation as two distinct dimensions of loneliness in older people. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 61, 119-135.
  • van Tilburg, T. G. (1988). Verkregen en gewenste onderteuning in het licht van eenzaamheidservaringen [Obtained and desired support in association with loneliness]. Doctoral Dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  • van Tilburg, T. G., Havens, B., & de Jong Gierveld, J. (2004). Loneliness among older adults in the Netherlands, Italy and Canada: A multifaceted comparison. Canadian Journal of Aging, 23, 169-180.
  • van Tilburg, T. G., & Leeuw, E. D. (1991). Stability of scale quality under different data collection procedures: A mode of comparison on the de Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 3, 69-85.
  • Vanhalst. J., Luyckx, K., Raes, F., & Goossens, L. (2012): Loneliness and depressive symptoms: The mediating and moderating role of uncontrollable ruminative thoughts. The Journal of Psychology, 146, 259-276.
  • Velicer, W. F., Eaton, C. A., & Fava, J. L. (2000). Construct explication through factor or component analysis: A review and evaluation of alternative procedures for determining the number of factors or components. In R. D. Goffin & E. Helmes (Eds.), Problems and Solutions in Human Assessment: Honoring Douglas Jackson at Seventy (pp. 41-71). Boston: Kluwer.
  • Weiss, R. S. (1973). Loneliness: The experience of emotional and social isolation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Zammuner, V. L. (2008). Italiańs social and emotional loneliness: The results of five studies. International Journal of Social Sciences, 3, 108-120.
  • Zumbo, B. D., Gadermann, A.M., & Zeisser, C. (2007). Ordinal versions of coefficients alpha and theta for likert rating scales. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 6, 21-29.