Resume Cette recherche presente une version franchise du UCLA Loneliness Scale evaluee et validee grace au concours de populations d'etudiants universitaires de premier cycle et de personnes du 3* TC age. Une premiere etude etablit la validite de concordance normative, la consistance interne et la validite theorique (analyse factorielle) de l'echelle de solitude de l'Universite Laval (ESUL) aupres d'etudiants universitaires. Une deuxieme et troisieme etude ont permis de verifier 1'equivalence des caracteristiques normatives entre les populations etudiantes et agees et d'etablir les vaiidites concomitante et discriminante et la fidelite test-retest de l' ESUL. Dans son ensemble, l' ESUL possede des caracteristiques psychometriques fiables et va tables aupres des jeunes et des moins jeunes et produit des resultats comparables a ceux obtenus avec la version originate du test.
Correlations obtained between loneliness and depression (.41), loneliness and self-esteem (-.72) confirm a relationship between these two variables for 81 French-Canadian university undergraduates. Moreover, a Pearson correlation between depression and self-esteem of -.28 was also significant.
This research, taking into account sex and previous occupational level, examines the influence of retirement on three dependent variables: loneliness, depression, and life satisfaction. One hundred and six men and women, aged 65 and receiving governmental pensions (Régie des rentes du Québec) completed on two occasions (with a one year interval) the Échelle de solitude de l'Université Laval, the Questionnaire de dépression de Beck and the Échelle de satisfaction de vie. The resulte indicate that there is no significant difference between Time 1 and Time 2 of evaluation on the three questionnaires (temporal view). However, from a cross-sectional perspective, newly retired men and professionals may be more lonely, less satisfied with their life and more depressed. The results are discussed in the light of Atchley's (1976b) model.
No significant differences were found in self-esteem and loneliness of 40 unemployed women and 40 working women. A negative correlation (−.49) was obtained between loneliness and self-esteem for both groups.
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