Introduction: The current article introduces the Loneliness Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (LATQ) and describes research evaluating its psychometric properties and correlates.
Methods: Two separate samples of university student participants (Study 1; N = 282, Study 2; N = 289) were administered the LATQ along with a battery of other measures. Whereas Study 1 involved a preliminary investigation of the psychometric properties of the LATQ, Study 2 provided an opportunity to further expand on this aim by assessing the concurrent validity of the measure across studies.
Results: Overall, psychometric analyses confirmed that the LATQ items are measured with an adequate degree of internal consistency and confirmatory factor analyses established that the nine items loaded significantly on one replicable factor. Concurrent validity was established in terms of links with other loneliness measures and a measure of persistent and intrusive negative thoughts. Furthermore, LATQ scores were associated with anti-mattering, social hopelessness, anxiety, depression, and unbearable psychache. Moreover, regression analyses established that the LATQ predicted significant unique variance in depression and psychache beyond the variance attributable to measures of loneliness and adaptability to loneliness.
Discussion: Collectively, results indicate that loneliness-related automatic thoughts represent a unique and important element of the loneliness construct. Future research applications and additional psychometric issues to address in future research are discussed and a need for a greater focus on the cognitive aspects of loneliness is explored.

Keywords: loneliness, automatic thoughts, hopelessness, mattering, anxiety, depression, psychache


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完全独自一人思考：孤独感自动思维问卷的发展、心理测量特性和相关性

简介：本文介绍了孤独自动思维问卷 (LATQ)，并描述了评估其心理测量特性和相关性的研究。
方法：对两个独立的大学生参与者样本（研究 1；N = 282，研究 2；N = 289）进行 LATQ 以及一系列其他措施。研究 1 涉及对 LATQ 心理测量特性的初步调查，研究 2 通过评估跨研究测量的同时有效性，提供了进一步扩展这一目标的机会。
结果：总体而言，心理测量分析证实，LATQ 项目的测量具有足够的内部一致性，验证性因素分析表明，九个项目在一个可复制因素上显着负载。同时有效性是根据与其他孤独感测量以及持续性和侵入性消极想法测量的联系而建立的。此外，LATQ 分数与反物质、社交绝望、焦虑、抑郁和难以忍受的心理有关。此外，回归分析表明，LATQ 预测抑郁和心理方面的显着独特差异，超出了孤独感和孤独适应性测量带来的差异。
讨论：总的来说，结果表明，与孤独相关的自动思维代表了孤独构造的一个独特而重要的元素。讨论了未来的研究应用和未来研究中需要解决的其他心理测量问题，并探讨了更加关注孤独感认知方面的必要性。

关键词：孤独、自动思维、绝望、重要、焦虑、抑郁、心理