Purpose in Life among First-Generation College Students: Friends Make a Difference
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Benefits of Purpose
1.2. Promotion of Purpose: Contexts and Relationships
1.3. First-Generation College Students
1.4. Present Study
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants and Procedure
2.2. Measures
2.2.1. Purpose
2.2.2. Relational Health Indices
2.2.3. Demographics
2.3. Analytic Plan
3. Results
4. Discussion
Conclusions, Future Directions, & Limitations
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Independent Variables | M (SD)/% |
---|---|
School 1 | 7.7% |
School 2 | 31.4% |
School 3 | 60.8% |
First-Year Students | 74.9% |
Gender | 75.4% |
White | 78.1% |
FGC Status | 12.9% |
Commitment to Purpose | 24.72 (5.34) |
Peer RHI | 4.28 (0.51) |
Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | ||||||
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Independent Variables | R2 | B (SE) | R2 | Δ R2 | B (SE) | R2 | Δ R2 | B (SE) |
School 1 | 0.08 * | 4.54 (2.13) * | 0.18 *** | 0.11 *** | 5.87 (2.08) ** | 0.20 *** | 0.02 * | 5.31 (2.08) * |
School 2 | 0.95 (0.89) | 1.30 (0.86) | 1.36 (0.85) | |||||
First-Year | 1.78 (0.92) + | 1.53 (0.87) + | 1.39 (0.87) | |||||
Gender | 0.86 (0.88) | 1.27 (0.83) | 1.06 (0.83) | |||||
Nonwhite | 1.04 (0.96) ** | 1.88 (0.95) + | 2.25 (0.96) * | |||||
FGC Status | −1.89 (1.17) | −2.04 (1.16) + | ||||||
Peer RHI | 3.23 (0.72)*** | 2.70 (0.77) ** | ||||||
FGC × Peer RHI | 4.57 (2.26) * |
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Lund, T.J.; Liang, B.; Lincoln, B.; White, A.E.; Mousseau, A.M.D.; Mejia Gomez, L.A.; Akins, E. Purpose in Life among First-Generation College Students: Friends Make a Difference. Youth 2022, 2, 12-22. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth2010002
Lund TJ, Liang B, Lincoln B, White AE, Mousseau AMD, Mejia Gomez LA, Akins E. Purpose in Life among First-Generation College Students: Friends Make a Difference. Youth. 2022; 2(1):12-22. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth2010002
Chicago/Turabian StyleLund, Terese Jean, Belle Liang, Brenna Lincoln, Allison E. White, Angela M. DeSilva Mousseau, Lester A. Mejia Gomez, and Elizabeth Akins. 2022. "Purpose in Life among First-Generation College Students: Friends Make a Difference" Youth 2, no. 1: 12-22. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth2010002