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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Psychol Personal Sci. 2020 Feb 19;12(1):108–117. doi: 10.1177/1948550619894995

Table 1.

Study 1 Data Collection Procedure.

Description Prematriculation: Summer 2017 Postmatriculation: Fall 2017 One Semester Later: Spring 2018

Data source Online orientation module Introduction to psychology course Official university records
N 5,722 Freshmen 875 Students, including 358 freshmen from the summer sample All 6,239 students from the summer and fall samples
Measures Identity fusion with university
Belonging uncertaintya
Identity fusion with university
Big Five personality traitsa
Belonging uncertaintya
Retention
Semester GPA
Demographicsa
SAT/ACT scoresa

Note. GPA = grade point average.

a

Control variables.