75 elderly persons in Los Angeles were administered the UCLA Loneliness Scale and a battery of health and psychosocial measures. Correlations showed that irrespective of marriage, being lonely was inversely related to education, health, and several aspects of emotional well-being. Women tended to feel mote lonely than men.
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