Reliability and validity of Japanese versions of the UCLA loneliness scale version 3 for use among mothers with infants and toddlers: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Relationship between the UCLA-LS3-J, SF-10, SF-3, and external criteria

						N = 248
	UCLA-LS3-J		SF-10		SF-3
	r	p	r	p	r	p
Social network
Family	−0.314	***	−0.280	***	−0.202	***
Friends	−0.438	***	−0.407	***	−0.348	***
Subjective Health Perception	−0.242	***	−0.222	***	−0.194	***
Feeling for childrearing
Affirmative feeling for childrearing	− 0.294	***	− 0.287	***	− 0.174	***
Childrearing burden	0.319	***	0.310	***	0.237	***
Childrearing anxiety	0.292	***	0.310	***	0.255	***

***p < 0.001
r: Pearson’s coefficient of correlation
Notes: UCLA-LS3-J: Japanese version of the University of California, Los Angeles Loneliness Scale, 3rd version, SF: Short-form
Subjective health perception was evaluated on a scale of 4: 4) very healthy, 3) quite healthy, 2) not very healthy, 1) unhealthy
Feeling for childrearing scale: The range of total scores for the “affirmative feeling for childrearing” is 4–16, while those for “childrearing burden” and “childrearing anxiety” are 6–24. Higher scores indicate a higher level of each feeling
Lubbin Social Network Scale: The total scores range from 0 to 30, with a higher score indicating a larger social network

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