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Okun, Morris Alan; Goegan, Brian; Mitric, Natasha – Educational Psychology, 2009
We tested the hypotheses derived from investment theory that quality of alternatives and institutional preference exert additive and interactive effects on institutional commitment in a sample of 1166 first-year college students at a large state university, who were surveyed within two weeks of the start of their first semester. As predicted, a…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student College Relationship, Dropout Characteristics, Hypothesis Testing