State Loneliness Scale (Shaver, Furman, & Buhrmester, 1985)
“During the past few days, about how often have you felt lonely? (Circle one.) 1 = most of the time 2 = often 3 = about half the time 4 = occasionally 5 = never, or almost never (R)”
during the past few days about how often have you felt lonely circle one 1 most of the time 2 often 3 about half the time 4 occasionally 5…
CITM_540aa7475eaf · 2 source instruments · 1 surface variant
Normalized stem
during the past few days about how often have you felt lonely circle one 1 most of the time 2 often 3 about half the time 4 occasionally 5 never or almost never r
Normalization rule (PRN-050): lowercase, strip non-word/space punctuation, collapse whitespace, trim. Used for fast dedup matching across the instrument corpus.
Normative benchmark
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Surface variants
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- During the past few days, about how often have you felt lonely? (Circle one.) 1 = most of the time 2 = often 3 = about half the time 4 = occasionally 5 = never, or almost never (R)
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State Loneliness Scale
“During the past few days, about how often have you felt lonely? (Circle one.) 1 = most of the time 2 = often 3 = about half the time 4 = occasionally 5 = never, or almost never (R)”
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