Table 1. Sense of belonging (SB) construct and scoring guide.

Positively-Worded (“High SB”a)	Negatively-Worded (“Low SB”a)	Overall SB Score	SB Construct
Likert-Scale Items	Likert-Scale Items
Always Relate [to cartoon]	Do Not Relate [to cartoon]	4	Highest Belonging
			Respondent feels all or a combination of the following: smart, productive, successful, valued, accepted, that they belong, that they have faculty they identify with, that they have a supportive social network, that they are a competent scientist
Often Relate [to cartoon]	Rarely Relate [to cartoon]	3	High Belonging
Sometimes Relate [to cartoon]	Sometimes Relate [to cartoon]	2	Neutral
			Respondent (1) relates with feeling a sense of belonging ~50% of the time, or (2) experiences some factors that contribute to sense of belonging but not others
Rarely Relate [to cartoon]	Often Relate [to cartoon]	1	Low Belonging
Do Not Relate [to cartoon]	Always Relate [to cartoon]	0	No Belonging
			Respondent feels all or a combination of the following: unintelligent, unproductive, unsuccessful, undervalued, that they do not belong, that they do not have faculty they identify with, that they do not have a supportive social network they enjoy being around, that they are not a competent scientist

^a(“High SB”) and (“Low SB”) descriptors correspond to the illustrations in the SB survey that are positively- and negatively-worded, and which map directly and inversely onto the overall sense of belonging construct, respectively.