Table 4.
Latent Growth Curve Models Predicting Psychosocial Outcomes on Emerging Adulthood Identity
| Intimacy | Generativity | Integrity | ||||
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| Coefficient | SE | Coefficient | SE | Coefficient | SE | |
| Fixed Effects | ||||||
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| For intercept | ||||||
| Intercept | 10.49*** | .44 | 7.49*** | .53 | - | - |
| EA Identity | .56*** | .03 | .34*** | .02 | - | - |
| Cohort | .12 | .15 | −.24 | .17 | - | - |
| Female | 1.61*** | .35 | 1.25*** | .32 | - | - |
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| For linear slope | ||||||
| Intercept | 1.06*** | .25 | .28 | .25 | - | - |
| EA Identity | −.10*** | .02 | −.03* | .01 | - | - |
| Cohort | .15 | .13 | .17 | .12 | - | - |
| Female | .13 | .19 | .08 | .18 | - | - |
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| For basis intercept | ||||||
| Intercept | - | - | - | - | 4.54*** | .92 |
| EA Identity | - | - | - | - | .62*** | .05 |
| Cohort | - | - | - | - | −.60* | .28 |
| Female | - | - | - | - | 1.23** | .45 |
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| For basis shape factor | ||||||
| Intercept | - | - | - | - | 5.30* | 2.38 |
| EA Identity | - | - | - | - | −.38** | .12 |
| Cohort | - | - | - | - | −1.15 | .64 |
| Female | - | - | - | - | −.44 | 1.13 |
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| Basis factor loadings | ||||||
| Wave 2 | - | - | - | - | .49*** | .08 |
| Wave 3 | - | - | - | - | .37 | .24 |
| Wave 4 | - | - | - | - | .57*** | .12 |
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| Random Effects | ||||||
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| Intercept | 15.89*** | 2.51 | 12.23*** | 2.23 | - | - |
| Slope | 1.18* | .50 | 1.74** | .53 | - | - |
| Basis intercept | - | - | - | - | 22.29 | 13.63 |
| Basis slope | - | - | - | - | 62.01 | 53.87 |
Note. All coefficients are unstandardized.
***
p < .001;
**
p < .01;
*
p < .05.
EA = Emerging adulthood. Fixed effects represent the average trajectory across all participants, and random effects represent the variance of individual participants’ trajectories around the average trajectory.