Table 3.

Internal consistency of survey response items.

Survey response item	Item-total correlation	Cronbach alpha if item deleted
“How much do you see yourself belonging to a rural community?”	0.852	0.888
“How much is being from a rural community a part of who you are?”	0.908	0.874
“How much do you identify with people who live in rural communities?”	0.880	0.881
“To what extent do you feel your general attitudes and opinions are similar to people who live in rural communities?”	0.805	0.894
“To what extent do you feel that you are typical of people who live in rural communities?”	0.851	0.886
“To what extent do you consider yourself a ‘city’ person?”	0.696	0.919
Total perceived rurality scale		0.907

Rurality scale for self-perceived responses is Likert in nature (ordinal). Refer to Appendix Figure 2 for details of total perceived Rurality scale construction.