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Pontinen, H.M., Swails, J.A. (2017). UCLA Loneliness Scale. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_95-1

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