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

Table 4.

Study 1 Results: Postmatriculation Identity Fusion Predicted Retention One but Not Grades One Semester Later.

	Retention One Semester Later				Grades One Semester Later
Predictor	OR [95% CI]	Wald χ²	p	AIC	b	t	p	$R_{adj}^{2}$

Model 1—no controls				236				.00
Identity fusion with university (z)	2.13 [1.47, 3.14]	15.31	<.001		0.02 [−0.02, 0.06]	0.89	.38
Model 2—with demographic controls				114				.08
Identity fusion with university (z)	3.53 [1.93, 7.11]	14.88	<.001		0.02 [−0.03, 0.06]	0.79	.42
Freshman status	2.24 [0.68, 8.06]	1.69	.19		0.14 [0.04, 0.23]	2.91	.004
SES	0.96 [0.65, 1.34]	0.05	.82		0.07 [0.04, 0.10]	4.76	<.001
Ethnicity	3.89 [1.17, 15.3]	4.50	.034		0.17 [0.07, 0.27]	3.43	<.001
Gender	1.80 [0.54, 6.10]	0.94	.33		0.07 [−0.03, 0.16]	1.34	.18
Model 3—with personality controls				215				.05
Identity fusion with university (z)	1.87 [1.23, 2.88]	8.44	.004		0.01 [−0.05, 0.04]	−0.38	.71
Openness	1.14 [0.58, 2.25]	0.13	.71		−0.03 [−0.10, 0.04]	−0.74	.46
Conscientiousness	1.11 [0.56, 2.24]	0.09	.76		0.24 [0.17, 0.31]	6.81	<.001
Extroversion	0.81 [0.48, 1.36]	0.65	.42		0.02 [−0.04, 0.07]	.57	.57
Agreeableness	0.70 [0.32, 1.47]	0.85	.36		−0.09 [−0.16, −0.01]	−2.34	.02
Neuroticism	1.07 [0.60, 1.93]	0.06	.81		0.03 [−0.03, 0.09]	1.13	.26
Model 4—with SAT control				145				.19
Identity fusion with university (z)	2.81 [1.72, 4.82]	15.82	<.001		0.04 [−0.003, 0.08]	1.85	.07
SAT	1.01 [1.00, 1.01]	11.36	<.001		0.002 [0.001, 0.002]	12.52	<.001
Model 5—with belonging uncertainty control				237				.01
Identity fusion with university (z)	2.17 [1.46, 3.24]	14.68	<.001		−0.007 [−0.05, 0.04]	−0.29	.77
Belonging uncertainty	0.96 [0.64, 1.43]	0.05	.83		0.08 [0.04, 0.13]	3.46	<.001

Note. Personality traits were measured with the Big Five inventory. Demographic controls were dummy coded as follows: freshman status (0 = nonfreshman, 1 = freshman), ethnicity (0 = underrepresented minority, 1 = Asian or White), and gender (0 = male, 1 = female). SES = socioeconomic status. AIC = Akaike information criterion. Bold type denotes identity fusion results.