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Research Instrument: Social
supports/barriers Measure
• Participants will indicate how likely they would be to
experience support (e.g., ‘‘get encouragement from your
friends for pursuing this major”) and barrier (e.g., ‘‘feel
pressure from parents or other important people to change
your major to some other field”) conditions if they were to
pursue a specific major.
• Using a 5-point scale from of 1–5, with higher support and
barrier scores reflecting, respectively, stronger positive and
negative expectations relative to the pursuit of a specified
major.
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