Sample of Reporting

Outliers and normality testing

Initial exploration of data identified two potential outlier – X from Y and X from Y. Hence,
these two participants were removed from the sample.

Subsequently, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) Test was conducted to determine whether the
data are normally distributed and the findings for all four variables (See Table 2 for results).
Financial self-efficacy (FSE) and financial management (FM) did not violate the assumption
of normality. While, family financial socialization (FFS) and financial knowledge (FK)
violated the assumption of normality using K-S test, subsequent Q-Q Plots show most of the
residuals fall along the straight line and does not deviate from the line. Thus, we can conclude
the data for both variables are normally distributed. 
 
  
 
Table 2 
Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) results for the outcome variables. 
Variable  Statistic  df  Sig. 
AS  .18  102  <.001 
PAp  .07  210  .016 
MO  .11  210  <.001 
PAv  .11  210  <.001 
JS  .15  108  <.001 
 

Hypothesis testing

Reporting of your hypothesis testing and also refer to the table.

Table 2 
Mean, Standard Deviation and Pearson’s Correlations Matrix of Gender, Loneliness, Mental
Health and Perceived Academic Performance 
Variables  M  SD  1  2  3  4 
1. Gender ª  -  -  -       
2. Loneliness  12.51  5.03  .01  -     
3. Mental Health  25.51  5.53  -.04  -.73**  -   
4. Perceived Academic 24.36  4.59  .12  -.32**  .54**  - 
Performance 
ª 1 = Male and 2 = Female 
** p < 0.01, two-tailed; * p < 0.05, two-tailed