The romantic loneliness scale (RomLon scale): the development and validation of a novel and brief measure to assess loneliness stemming from the absence of romance in dating, hookups, and marital relationships.

BMC Psychol · 2025 · PMC12341205 · PMID 40790543

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The developer of the scale claimed the scale to be highly reliable (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.872; item‒total correlations were reported to be highly significant = p < 0.001) and valid (CFI = 0.991; TLI = 0.981; RMSEA = 0.066).

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