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Women Who Worship Alone: The Relationship Between Marital Status and Loneliness in the Church

This study investigated the relationship between marital status, network density, and loneliness for women in the church. Participants were 144 women from several churches of the same Protestant denomination. They responded to a questionnaire which included the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale and measures of the importance of the church as a social support to the individual. A one-way analysis of variance revealed that the married women who worship alone reported significantly higher levels of loneliness than did single women (R

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:pdx.edu/oai:pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu:open_access_etds-5860
Date10 August 1994
CreatorsSchwanz, Judith Ann
PublisherPDXScholar
Source SetsPortland State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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