Feeling Loved: A novel brief self-report health measure

Publication date: Available online 20 July 2018Source: EXPLOREAuthor(s): Bruce Barrett, Daniel Muller, Supriya Hayer, Tola Ewers, Joseph Chase, Jodi H. Barnet, Roger BrownAbstractContextThere is need for a short validated self-report instrument for assessing the feeling of being loved. The Feeling Loved instrument asks: “Do you feel loved?” and “How loved do you feel?” as well as “Do you love yourself?” and “How much do you love yourself?” with 100mm visual analogue scales assessing the continuous response options.ObjectiveTo assess convergent and discriminant validity and to explore psychometric structure for this novel self-report measure.DesignConvergent validity comparators include: general mental health, perceived social support, perceived stress, depressive symptoms, and positive/negative emotion. Discriminant validity comparators include: gender, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and body mass index. Latent class analysis (LCA) techniques explore psychometric structure.SettingBaseline evaluation for a randomized controlled trial.ParticipantsCommunity-recruited adults in Madison, Wisconsin.InterventionThis validation study is based on pre-intervention data.Main outcome measuresStrength of correlation with comparators are used to assess convergence and discrimination. Goodness-of-fit indicators assess latent class models.ResultsOf n=412 respondents, 92% answered positively to both Yes/No questions, and 59% self-rated ≥75/100 on both 0-to-100 VAS sca...
Source: EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing - Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research