Table 1.

Attrition and Cronbach’s alpha for ERI variables for all study sample, by gender, ethnicity/race, and study year with descriptive statistics

		Year 1				Year 2					Year 3
	N (%)	Exploration (6 items)	Commitment (8 items)	Private regard (5 items)	Centrality (6 items)	N (%)	Exploration (6 items)	Commitment (8 items)	Private regard (5 items)	Centrality (6 items)	N (%)	Exploration (6 items)	Commitment (8 items)	Private regard (5 items)	Centrality (6 items)
Overall	241 (100)	0.69	0.85	0.68	0.68	193 (100)	0.68	0.81	0.77	0.79	108 (100)	0.75	0.90	0.78	0.85
Gender
Male	82 (34.02)	0.74	0.80	0.72	0.71	63 (32.64)	0.67	0.81	0.80	0.75	39 (36.11)	0.70	0.87	0.86	0.79
Female	159 (65.96)	0.65	0.87	0.67	0.66	130 (67.36)	0.68	0.82	0.77	0.81	69 (63.89)	0.77	0.91	0.72	0.86
Ethnicity/Race
Latinx	102 (42.32)	0.57	0.87	0.66	0.56	80 (41.45)	0.64	0.83	0.80	0.76	39 (36.11)	0.76	0.86	0.73	0.82
Asian	139 (57.68)	0.74	0.83	0.70	0.75	113 (58.55)	0.70	0.79	0.75	0.79	69 (63.89)	0.75	0.91	0.81	0.86
Descriptive statistics
	ERD	Exploration	Commitment	Private regard	Centrality	ERD	Exploration	Commitment	Private regard	Centrality	ERD	Exploration	Commitment	Private regard	Centrality
Total mean (SD)	3.81 (4.30)	3.18 (0.48)	3.50 (0.47)	4.18 (0.96)	4.08 (1.09)	3.60 (4.46)	3.20 (0.48)	3.41 (0.44)	4.13 (0.98)	3.88 (1.04)	3.35 (4.20)	3.25 (0.47)	3.42 (0.52)	4.32 (0.99)	3.99 (1.06)
Latinx	3.92 (4.22)	3.08 (0.43)*	3.48 (0.53)	3.97 (0.98)*	3.98 (1.22)	3.41 (4.56)	3.14 (0.52)	3.45 (0.49)	4.01 (1.06)	3.81 (1.11)	3.79 (4.52)	3.26 (0.52)	3.54 (0.48)	4.33 (1.03)	3.84 (1.00)
Asian	3.73 (4.37)	3.25 (0.50)*	3.51 (0.42)	4.34 (0.92)*	4.15 (0.98)	3.73 (4.40)	3.23 (0.45)	3.39 (0.40)	4.22 (0.91)	3.93 (0.99)	3.11 (4.03)	3.25 (0.44)	3.35 (0.53)	4.32 (0.97)	4.08 (1.09)

Asterisk indicates significant ethnic/racial group mean differences within the same year at p < 0.01 based on t test