Detailed information was also given to ensure the confidentiality of our respondents and to decrease social desirability. Finally, in order to decrease the evaluation apprehension, it was stressed that there were no correct or incorrect answers for the given items in the survey.
In this study, a 5-point Likert scale in which 1 = ‘‘strongly disagree’’
and 5 = ‘‘strongly agree’’ was conducted.
Items are averaged within the scales to create composite measures for each variable.
Items were coded in a way that high scores equate to high levels of the construct of interest