A Study of the social and emotional loneliness Scale-Abbreviated SELSA-A in Syrian context

The purpose of this study was to develop an Arabic version of the social and emotional loneliness scale for adults–Abbreviated Form (SELSA-A), and assess its psychometric properties in order to ascertain its suitability to be used in Syria. Several methods of reliability and validity were used in Studying the instrument under consideration, which was administered to a various samples of university students and others (N=623). Factor analysis by using principal components method and Varimax Rotation was also conducted.