Feeling Loved: A Novel Brief Self-Report Health Measure.

Of n = 412 respondents, 92% answered positively to both Yes/No questions, and 59% self-rated ≥75/100 on both 0-to-100 VAS scales. Supporting convergent validity, highly significant (p < 0.001) Spearman's rho=ρ correlations of a summed Feeling Loved score were: mental health (ρ = 0.49); social support (ρ = 0.46); perceived stress (ρ = -0.46), depressive symptoms (ρ = -0.31), and both positive (ρ = 0.50) and negative (ρ = -0.43) emotion. Significant associations were also found for personality indicators. Supporting discriminant validity, Feeling Loved scores did not correlate significantly with physical health (ρ = -0.08), body mass index (ρ = 0.01), age (ρ = 0.06), or income (ρ = 0.07) (p values all ≥ 0.12). Latent class analysis models suggested a 3-class structure, with strong goodness-of-fit indicators.