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Roommate relationships are fundamental to the social environment of many emerging adults. However, no validated, widely used, measure of roommate relationship quality exists for examining the impact of these relationships on individual functioning and health. In this report, we present preliminary evidence of the factor structure, concurrent validi...
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... normality of all scales was evaluated by calculating skewness and kurtosis. Relationship length was found to be non-normal and was transformed prior to tests of concurrent validity (Supplementary Table S4; Table 5). ...Context 2
... to our predictions, no significant relationship was detected between the RRS and anxious attachment style or neuroticism, and a significant correlation was detected between the RRS and symptoms of anxiety. As expected, there was no significant relationship between the RRS and either openness or symptoms of depression (Table 5). ...Context 3
... although extensive studies on the subject are not available, theoretically it is plausible that as payment motivates participation in studies, it may also alter the characteristics of the participant pool ( Nelson and Merz, 2002). Socioeconomic characteristics of the sample are available in the supplement (Supplementary Tables S5-S7). Given the novel nature of the RRS and the single study used to investigate here, it is our belief that the best way to fully explore the effect of differing demographics on the structure of the RRS is to utilize it with new samples. ...