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The Existential Loneliness Questionnaire: background, development, and preliminary findings.

Aviva M Mayers1, Siek-Toon Khoo, Martin Svartberg

  • 1Women's Pelvic Health Centre, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. avivamay@hotmail.com

Journal of Clinical Psychology
|September 5, 2002
PubMed
Summary

A new Existential Loneliness Questionnaire (ELQ) was developed and validated. The 22-item ELQ effectively measures existential loneliness and differentiates between symptomatic and asymptomatic HIV-infected women.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychological Measurement
  • Psychometrics
  • Health Psychology

Background:

  • Existential loneliness is a significant aspect of psychological well-being.
  • Existing measures may not fully capture the nuances of existential loneliness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a new measure of existential loneliness, the Existential Loneliness Questionnaire (ELQ).
  • To assess the psychometric properties of the ELQ in a sample of HIV-infected women.

Main Methods:

  • Item response theory (Rasch model) was used for item analysis of the preliminary ELQ (ELQ-P).
  • Convergent and discriminative validity of the ELQ were examined.
  • Correlations with measures of depression, loneliness, purpose-in-life, and hopelessness were assessed.

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Main Results:

  • A 22-item version of the ELQ was developed, demonstrating internal consistency and effective measurement of existential loneliness.
  • The ELQ showed good discriminative validity between symptomatic and asymptomatic HIV-infected women.
  • The ELQ correlated strongly with depression, non-existential loneliness, and purpose-in-life, and moderately with hopelessness.

Conclusions:

  • The 22-item ELQ is a reliable and valid measure for assessing existential loneliness.
  • The ELQ has potential utility in clinical and research settings, particularly with vulnerable populations like HIV-infected women.
  • Further research with larger samples is needed to explore the dimensional structure of the ELQ.