Are we measuring loneliness in the same way in men and women in the general population and in the older population? Two studies of measurement equivalence

• Thomas V. Pollet ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thomas.pollet@northumbria.ac.uk

  Affiliation Dept. of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4210-935X

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• Alexandra Thompson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software

  Affiliation Dept. of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Connor Malcolm,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software

  Affiliation Dept. of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Kristofor McCarty,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Dept. of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Tamsin K. Saxton,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dept. of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Sam G. B. Roberts

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dept. of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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