How to Study Loneliness

There are two main scales that have been developed to assess how lonely people are. The Deong-Givelle scale is named after a Dutch professor who designed it and the second one is a UCLA scale which was developed in the University of California, Los Angeles. But there's also a single question as well that the UK Government suggests that we ask which is how often do you feel lonely with options of hardly ever, never or some of the time or often. And by combining the UCLA three item scale with that single question about how Often Do You Feel Lonely? we can get a quite good accurate assessment of how lonely people feel.