Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of the final sample, by country.
Table 2.
Mean estimates (95% CI) on the components of the social network, the UCLA Loneliness Scale and health status.
Table 3.
Correlation matrix (95% CI) among size of the network, frequency of contact with members of the network, quality of the network, and the score on the UCLA Loneliness Scale (n = 10 047).
Table 4.
Final hierarchical linear regression models predicting health status in each country; weighted data.
Table 5.
Multiple linear regression model with health status as dependent variable; weighted data.
Fig 1.
Relationship between frequency of contact with members of the network and health status by country, adjusted for the covariates considered in the multiple linear regression model.
Fig 2.
Relationship between loneliness and health status by country, adjusted for the covariates considered in the multiple linear regression model.
Fig 3.
Mean score on 3-item UCLA Loneliness Scale, by country and age group.