Dating and disclosure. Refer to the Journal of Adolescence (Apr. 2010) study of adolescents’ disclosure of their dating and romantic relationships, Exercise 12.16

(p. 698). Recall that multiple regression was used to model y = level of an adolescent’s disclosure of a date’s identity to his/her mother (measured on a 5-point scale). The independent variables in the study were gender (x1 = 1 if female, 0 if male), age (x2, years), dating experience

(x3, years), and level of trust in parents (x4, 5-point scale).

The highest correlation (in absolute value) for any pair of independent variables was r = -.16 for gender and level of trust. Do you believe that the regression analysis will exhibit multicollinearity problems? Explain.