Study Demir et al. (2012): study ZZ Various nation sets 2010
- Public
- College students, Turkish and Southwestern American Universities, 2010
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 569
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Perceived mattering
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- The Mattering to Others Questionnaire (Marshall, 2001)
- Operationalization
- Mattering to friends (same-sex best friends here), self-report on 11 questions:
Each person has ideas or feelings about how other people see them. I am interested in how you think people think about you.
Choose the rating you feel is the best for each of the following sentences:
a: I feel special to my friends
b: I am needed by my friends
c: I am missed by my friends when I am away
d: When I talk, my friends try to understand what I am saying
e: I am interesting to my friends
f: My friends notice my feelings
g: My friends give me credit when I do well
h: My friends notice when I need help
i: I matter to my friends
Rating:
[ 1 ] not much
[ 2 ]
[ 3 ] somewhat
[ 4 ]
[ 5 ] a lot
j: People have many things to think about. If your friends made a list of all the things s/he thinks about where do you think you'd be on the list?
[ 5 ] top
[ 4 ]
[ 3 ]
[ 2 ]
[ 1 ] bottom
k: If your friends made a list of all the things s/he cares about, where do you think you'd be on the list?
[ 5 ] top
[ 4 ]
[ 3 ]
[ 2 ]
[ 1 ] bottom
Score: Mean of the item responses (ranging from 1 to 5)