caa a22 4500 467916667 CHVBK 20180406152905.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-7746-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-7746-y Hawthorne Graeme Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, PO Box 5444, 3081, West Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia aut Measuring Social Isolation in Older Adults: Development and Initial Validation of the Friendship Scale [Elektronische Daten] [Graeme Hawthorne] Although there are many excellent published scales measuring social isolation, there is need for a short, user-friendly, stand alone scale measuring felt social isolation with good psychometric properties. This study reports the development and preliminary validation of a short, user-friendly scale, the Friendship Scale. The six items measure six of the seven important dimensions that contribute to social isolation and its opposite, social connection. The psychometric properties suggest that it has excellent internal structures as assessed by structural equation modelling (CFI = 0.99, RMSEA = 0.02), that it possesses reliability (Cronbach α = 0.83) and discrimination when assessed against two other short social relationship scales. Tests of concurrent discriminant validity suggest it is sensitive to the known correlates of social isolation. Although further work is needed to validate it in other populations, the results of this study suggest researchers may find the Friendship Scale particularly useful in epidemiology, population surveys or in health-related quality of life evaluation studies where a parsimonious measure of felt social support or social isolation is needed. Springer, 2006 loneliness nationallicence social connectedness nationallicence social isolation nationallicence social relationships nationallicence social support nationallicence Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 77/3(2006-07-01), 521-548 0303-8300 77:3<521 2006 77 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-7746-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-7746-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hawthorne Graeme Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, PO Box 5444, 3081, West Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 77/3(2006-07-01), 521-548 0303-8300 77:3<521 2006 77 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer