ERIC Number: EJ1386731
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Sep
Pages: 40
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ISSN: ISSN-0361-0365
EISSN: EISSN-1573-188X
Righteous, Reveler, Achiever, Bored: A Latent Class Analysis of First-Year Student Involvement
Lingo, Mitchell D.; Chen, Wei-Lin
Research in Higher Education, v64 n6 p893-932 Sep 2023
Using the Wabash National Study on Liberal Arts Education and a latent class analysis of 28 outside-the-classroom activities and behaviors, we developed a typology of outside-the-classroom student engagement during the first year of college. We find ten classes of student involvement: academic artist, party athlete, serious athlete, conventional non-worker, disengaged, maximizer, moderate worker, detached partier, involved partier, and religious. Next, we examine the relationship between latent classes and students' characteristics through a multinomial logistic regression analysis. Students reporting as first-generation or racially minoritized are overrepresented in the disengaged and involved partier classes. We found an overrepresentation of White students across all party classes. Students reporting as female were likelier to be members of the religious, moderate worker, and disengaged classes and not to be members of the party classes. Federal grant recipients were likelier to be in the academic artist and moderate worker classes. We discuss other sociocultural, economic, and academic relationships in the paper. Next, we explore the relationship of latent class to academic and developmental outcomes. We find academic artists as the only class with a significant positive relationship across the seven dependent measures. Involved partier, moderate worker, and religious classes have positive relationships with at least five dependent measures. The detached partier and party athlete classes have the lowest first-year GPAs of all latent classes. Finally, we discuss the relationships of latent classes, related institutional policy implications, and directions for future research.
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Participation, Extracurricular Activities, Recreational Activities, Artists, Athletes, Employment, Social Life, Religion, First Generation College Students, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences, Disproportionate Representation, Gender Differences, Grade Point Average, Educational Policy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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