items from the SRM-SF on which a participant provided a scorable response. Four participants
were eliminated from the current study due to too many unscorable responses on the SRM-SF,
resulting in a final total sample of 108 students. Per the SRM-SF manual, a response was
deemed unscorable when it was unrelated to the given question, was an incoherent or incomplete
thought or if it was a restatement of the given question or importance rating (Gibbs, Basinger, &
Fuller, 1992). In order to yield a valid score on the SRM-SF, at least seven scorable responses
are required. The four eliminated participants provided unscorable responses on two or more of
the nine presented SRM-SF items, and therefore a valid overall score could not be calculated