3) NAMING VARIABLES AND CHARACTERISTICS
Because of the large number of variables, we simplify the name to make it understandable. These are the Data View after we make changes from the Variable View For the first scale, Need to Belong Scale (Leary, Kelly, Cottrell, & Schreindorfer, 2005), we used the name QA1 to QA10 to represent the variables. QA indicates the first scale while the number 1 to 10 represents the number of questions. Then, we label the value of the scale as; "1" Strongly Disagree "2" Moderately Disagree "3" Neither Agree Nor Disagree "4" Moderately Agree "5" Strongly Agree We repeated the steps for the second scale, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet & Farley, 1988), as QB1 to QB12 to illustrate each variable. QB to signify the second scale while number 1 to 12 represents the number of questions. After that, w e label the value as "1" Very...