Table 3.
Descriptive statistics and results of the latent growth curve model of the dual-cycle processes in Study 2
| Descriptive Statistics | Growth factors | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | T2 | T3 | Intercept | Slope | |||
| M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | M | σ2 | M | σ2 | |
| Commitment making | 3.48 (0.89) | 3.45 (1.00) | 3.50 (0.97) | 3.47*** | 0.57*** | 0.01 | 0.15*** |
| Identification with commitment | 3.65 (0.73) | 3.62 (0.73) | 3.56 (0.76) | 3.65*** | 0.35*** | −0.04 | 0.11*** |
| Exploration in breadth | 3.42 (0.76) | 3.64 (0.72) | 3.61 (0.68) | 3.44*** | 0.30*** | 0.10*** | 0.04** |
| Exploration in depth | 3.27 (0.69) | 3.41 (0.73) | 3.46 (0.70) | 3.27*** | 0.23*** | 0.10*** | 0.08*** |
| Ruminative exploration | 2.53 (0.77) | 2.71 (0.80) | 2.81 (0.93) | 2.53*** | 0.34*** | 0.15*** | 0.08*** |
A Latent Growth Curve Model on a sample that included also the 28 adolescents that participated in the longitudinal part of the study but did not write a turning point narrative at T1 resulted in the same findings
**p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001