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With the prolongation of survival time, as in the whole World, the need for psychological consultancy and guidance services for elderly people has increased. This study aims to adapt the Loneliness Scale for Elderly (LSE), which is developed to determine loneliness level of elderly people, into Turkish culture. With this aim, the scale that the original form was generated by (Gierveld & Kamphuis,1985) and revised in 1999 (van Tilburg and de Jong Gierveld,1999) has been adapted into Turkish, the validity and reliability studies has been carried out as well. To be able to obtain the data of this study, 950 elderly people aged 65 and over were tested on the scale. 809 people’s scale has been used for statistical analysis. In order to test the validity of LSE, construct validity, criterion validity studies were conducted. The construct validity of the

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