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of the Negative Mood Regulation Scale. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 910-913.
This paper paper uses a multitrait-multimethod matrix to demonstrate that prediction by NMR expectancies of depression, loneliness and adjustment to college cannot be explained by method variance alone.