SCALES

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We are using SPSS ( Statistical Package for Social Science) to compute and interpret the data obtained from the respondent of the survey. We choose 2 types of scales for our project. Here we provide and attach the sample scales.



                         Need to Belong Scale (Leary, Kelly, Cottrell, & Schreindorfer, 2005)



This scale was labelled as QA in SPSS


Respondents were asked to answer all items, for the first scale the number represent the answers are:



"1"  Strongly Disagree
"2"  Moderately Disagree
"3"  Neither Agree Nor Disagree
"4"  Moderately Agree
"5"  Strongly Agree







Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet & Farley, 1988)



This scale was labelled as QB in SPSS

We label this scale in SPSS as QB


And for the second scale,  the numbers that represent the answers are:

"1"  Very Strongly Disagree
"2"  Strongly Disagree
"3"  Mildly Disagree
"4"  Neutral
"5"  Mildly Agree
"6"  Strongly Agree
"7"  Very Strongly Agree 

The items tended to divide into factor groups relating to the source of the social support, namely family (Fam), friends (Fri) or significant other (SO).









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