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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pers Soc Psychol. 2015 Nov 2;111(5):745–765. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000075

Table 5.

Exploratory Text Analysis

Personal Pronouns Six-Letter Words Words per Sentence Social Words Family Words





β t p β t p β t p β t p β t p
UV Intervention 0.82 34.12 .000 −0.16 4.02 .000 0.11 2.58 .010 0.53 14.40 .000 0.37 9.43 .000
URM 0.02 0.95 .342 −0.02 0.64 .520 −0.03 0.92 .361 0.05 1.56 .118 0.02 0.77 .443
FG 0.00 0.13 .900 0.02 0.36 .718 −0.08 1.93 .053 0.08 2.09 .037 0.05 1.27 .205
URM x FG 0.00 0.13 .895 0.02 0.49 .627 −0.06 1.46 .145 0.05 1.41 .158 −0.01 0.19 .852
UV x URM −0.01 0.23 .815 0.07 1.80 .073 0.09 2.02 .043 0.04 1.02 .307 0.01 0.23 .817
UV x FG 0.02 0.96 .340 0.02 0.37 .712 −0.02 0.38 .703 0.07 1.94 .053 0.07 1.67 .095
UV x URM x FG 0.02 0.95 .343 0.07 1.69 .092 0.00 0.04 .972 0.11 3.07 .002 0.08 2.02 .043
Confidence 0.02 0.82 .413 0.01 0.33 .740 −0.02 0.45 .653 −0.02 0.73 .464 −0.02 0.63 .530
Prior GPA −0.03 1.66 .098 0.25 8.08 .000 −0.01 0.15 .879 0.03 0.89 .375 0.06 1.84 .066
UV x Confidence −0.01 0.51 .610 −0.03 0.83 .410 0.01 0.32 .747 0.01 0.50 .619 −0.03 1.00 .317
UV x Prior GPA 0.04 2.25 .025 −0.04 1.29 .198 0.04 1.21 .225 0.01 0.41 .682 0.02 0.72 .472
Gender −0.01 0.49 .624 0.03 0.93 .354 −0.10 2.95 .003 −0.04 1.38 .169 0.09 2.84 .005
Friend Words Human Words Cognitive Mechanism Words Insight Words Causal Words





β t p β t p β t p β t p β t p
UV Intervention 0.11 2.61 .009 0.25 5.98 .000 0.21 5.03 .000 0.33 8.18 .000 0.01 0.22 .825
URM 0.04 1.13 .258 0.02 0.66 .512 −0.03 0.93 .352 0.04 1.36 .174 0.02 0.51 .611
FG −0.09 2.15 .032 −0.03 0.65 .514 0.05 1.11 .267 0.03 0.60 .546 0.04 0.96 .337
URM x FG −0.04 0.88 .380 −0.02 0.56 .576 0.05 1.13 .259 0.03 0.76 .450 0.03 0.69 .493
UV x URM −0.02 −0.35 .727 0.00 0.10 .923 0.02 0.35 .724 0.03 0.68 .495 0.02 0.40 .688
UV x FG 0.03 0.68 .497 0.02 0.59 .558 0.05 1.18 .237 0.07 1.62 .105 0.00 0.06 .953
UV x URM x FG 0.02 0.41 .680 0.02 0.52 .607 0.10 2.33 .020 0.11 2.83 .005 0.05 1.10 .271
Confidence 0.04 1.12 .265 −0.04 1.15 .251 0.04 1.35 .178 0.03 0.83 .408 0.05 1.52 .129
Prior GPA 0.00 0.05 .960 0.00 0.01 .996 0.11 3.31 .001 0.03 0.84 .400 0.13 3.84 .000
UV x Confidence 0.00 0.09 .925 −0.06 1.89 .060 0.02 0.60 .552 −0.04 1.17 .242 −0.05 1.54 .125
UV x Prior GPA 0.04 1.30 .193 0.02 0.55 .583 0.01 0.25 .802 0.04 1.21 .226 −0.04 1.14 .255
Gender 0.07 2.27 .024 0.04 1.24 .216 −0.05 1.59 .112 −0.03 0.96 .339 −0.04 1.14 .256

Note. df = 1027. UV= Utility Value intervention condition (UV =+ 1, Control = −1), URM = Underrepresented Minority (URM = +1, Majority = −1), FG = First-generation (FG =+ 1, Continuing-generation = −1). Confidence = Confidence about performance. Gender (Female= +1, Male = −1).