Participants
Participants were 188 undergraduate students who consented to
participate in a broader study at a moderate-sized state university in
the rural southeast of the United States; the study was approved by the
university IRB. The students received credit toward their general
psychology course requirements in exchange for participating in this
study. The sample consisted of 115 women (61.2%), and 73 men (38.8%).
Participants were required to be at least 18 years of age to
participate. The mean age of participants was 18.91 (SD = 1.86) with
ages ranging from 18 to 37. Within this sample, 86.2% of participants
were White, 9.6% were Hispanic or Latinx, 8% were Black or African
American, 4.3% were American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.5% were Asian,
0.5% were Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and 0.5% were of
another ethnicity.