<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/"><dcterms:title>R scripts for: Social Belonging, Mattering and NEET Status: Understanding Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood in Norway</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://doi.org/10.18710/JXSM22</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Bauger, Lars</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>DataverseNO</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2026-06-01</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2026-06-01T13:27:07Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>This dataset contains two R scripts used for data preparation and statistical analysis in the study "Social Belonging, Mattering and NEET Status: Understanding Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood in Norway" (Bauger, in press). The scripts reproduce all descriptive statistics, LOESS figures, correlation matrices, and regression models reported in the manuscript. Analyses are based on data from the Norwegian Counties Public Health Survey (NCPHS, 2021) among respondents aged 18–29 (N = 3,933; regression model N = 3,783). The underlying survey data are not included and must be obtained separately through a formal application to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH/FHI)</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Medicine, Health and Life Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Social Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Emerging adulthood</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Loneliness</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>NEET</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Mattering</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>R script</dcterms:subject><dcterms:language>English</dcterms:language><dcterms:IsSupplementTo>Bauger, L. &amp; Hagen, S. (in press). Social Belonging, Mattering and NEET
  Status: Understanding Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood in Norway.
  International Journal of Adolescence and Youth. DOI: [DOI OF ARTICLE], doi</dcterms:IsSupplementTo><dcterms:date>2026-06-01</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Bauger, Lars</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:dateSubmitted>2026-05-26</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:license>CC0 1.0</dcterms:license></metadata>