The Validation of Chinese Version of UCLA Loneliness Scale for University Students

• Main Authors: Huang Yi-Jen, 黃宜貞
• Other Authors: Wang Kwua-Yun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88801450492785606492

碩士 === 國防醫學院 === 護理研究所 === 98 === The studies revealed that around 80% of people occasionally felt lonely. Loneliness is not only made the negative influence on clients’ physical and mental integrity, but also the risk factor of medical disease. Currently, there are two different kinds of Chinese version loneliness scale which used for elder people in Taiwan. However, adolescent (particularly the college student) is the high risk group of loneliness. And then, the prevalence of loneliness appears to peak during adolescent, more than elder. If the loneliness has been early prevention and management, it will be effective control of loneliness extending from adolescent to elder. The purpose of this research was to explore the Chinese version of loneliness scale for students, which make it more easily to screening, permitting early intervention, and prevention. The study was the cross-sectional research design. One hundred and eighty one students were recruited from 4 Taiwan Universities using convenient sampling. The structured questionnaires including the Chinese UCLA loneliness scale（version 3）, Tung’s depression inventory for college students, Chinese Rosenberg self-esteem scale, self report of loneliness were used for data collection. All data were analyzed by descriptive statistics. The Cronbach's α, Guttman split-half and Spearman correlation coefficient were used for reliability, Spearman correlation coefficient was use for convergent validity with depression, self-esteem and self report loneliness, and t test was use for known group validity that compare having good friend or not had were statistically significant different or not in loneliness. The statistically significance was p <.05. The results were as follows: (1) internal consistency reliability Cronbach's alpha of Chinese UCLA loneliness scale (version 3) was .887, the split-half reliability Guttman split-half was .830, the test-retest reliability was .561 over a 14 day interval ; (2) the factor analysis KMO index was .886, and three factors explained 61.660% of total variance. The content validity index was .939, and the convergent validity in terms of the depression, esteem and self report of loneliness were .561, .576, and .660. The results showed that students having good friend or not were statistically significant different in loneliness, which demonstrated the known group validity. In summary, this study found that Chinese version UCLA loneliness scale (version 3) has appropriate reliability and validity and suggests that future study may apply the scale to study college student’s loneliness.