Social Connection with Others in the Course

What it measures

This four-item scale measures how much a person taking a course with others has formed relationships and a bond with them. Moorhouse, Goode, Cotte, and Widney (2023) used it in Study 6, a field experiment with 210 participants in a financial education course, in research on how anticipated stigma drives concealment of consumer debt. No source was given, so the scale appears to have been created by the authors.

Response format

7-point Likert (1 = strongly disagree, 7 = strongly agree)

Scale items

• I developed relationships with people in this course.
• I shared a bond with other members of this course.
• I felt an emotional connection with other members in this course.
• I had a lot in common with members in this course.

Full scale items shown. Always cite the original source when using this scale in research.

Usage notes & scoring

Alpha was .88 (Moorhouse et al. 2023, p. 1146). Validity was not discussed. See also Satisfaction with Life (Joy and Meaning) (ID 90525), Anticipated Debt Stigma (ID 90215), and Debt Secrecy (ID 90339), from the same article.

Citation

Moorhouse, Michael, Miranda Goode, June Cotte, and Jennifer Widney (2023), "Helping Those That Hide: Anticipated Stigmatization Drives Concealment and a Destructive Cycle of Debt," Journal of Marketing Research, 60 (6), 1135-1153.

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