השוואת שיטות

	Convoy Model Social Network Mapping	סולם הבדידות של UCLA
תחום	Social Gerontology	פסיכולוגיה חברתית
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1980	1978
הוגה השיטה	Robert L. Kahn & Toni C. Antonucci	Daniel Russell
סוג	Elicitation-and-coding pipeline for personal social networks across the life course	Subjective loneliness assessment scale
מקור מכונן	Kahn, R. L., & Antonucci, T. C. (1980). Convoys over the life course: Attachment, roles, and social support. In P. B. Baltes & O. G. Brim (Eds.), Life-span development and behavior (Vol. 3, pp. 253-286). Academic Press.	Russell, D. W. (1996). UCLA Loneliness Scale (Version 3): Reliability, validity, and factor structure. Journal of Personality Assessment, 66(1), 20–40.
כינויים	Social Convoy Model, Hierarchical Mapping Technique, Antonucci Convoy Mapping, Convoys Over the Life Course	UCLA LS, UCLA Loneliness Scale, Russell Loneliness Scale
קשורות	3	3
תקציר	The convoy model of social relations conceives of each person as moving through life surrounded by a 'convoy' of significant others who provide and receive social support. Introduced by Robert Kahn and Toni Antonucci in 1980, the model frames personal networks as dynamic structures shaped by stable attachments, changing social roles, and life-course transitions. Its signature elicitation tool is the hierarchical mapping technique, in which respondents place the people important to them into three concentric circles around a focal self, with the innermost circle reserved for those so close that life without them is hard to imagine. From this map an analyst codes the convoy's structure, composition, and the support functions its members serve, distinguishing aid, affection, and affirmation. The approach yields a person-centered, qualitative-plus-quantitative portrait of social embeddedness that complements count-based scales. It has become a foundational framework in gerontology and life-span developmental psychology for studying how relationships sustain well-being across aging.	The UCLA Loneliness Scale is a widely used instrument for measuring subjective feelings of loneliness and social isolation. Developed by Daniel Russell in the late 1970s, the scale measures the discrepancy between desired and actual social relationships. The UCLA LS has become the gold standard in loneliness research and is used across clinical, epidemiological, and social psychology studies worldwide.