Table 2.

The Social Capital Investment Inventory (SCII)

Scale item	N	Mean ± SD	r with total	Alpha if deleted
How often do you interact with others through the following? (1 = never, 5 = every day)
1. Talking and chatting together with others	304	3.35 ± 0.82	0.55	0.77
2. Gift giving or gift exchanging	304	2.57 ± 0.87	0.53	0.77
3. Working or doing things together	297	3.03 ± 0.90	0.44	0.79
4. Entertaining, playing or traveling together	304	2.39 ± 0.86	0.52	0.78
5. Communicating through telephone or internet	304	3.21 ± 0.94	0.51	0.78
6. Offering assistance to others	304	2.95 ± 0.86	0.57	0.77
7. Participating in parties and gathering	304	2.76 ± 0.87	0.60	0.76
Total scale	297	2.90 ± 0.59	1.00	0.81

(1) Cronbach’s alpha = 0.81 for the SCII, data fit a one-factor model well (χ²/df = 1.83, GFI = 0.99, RMSEA = 0.05, CFI = 0.99). (2)The sample size N varied across items because of missing data. Pair-wise deletion was used in computing alpha coefficients