Relationship between freshman ego identity status and subsequent academic behavior: A test of the predictive validity of Marcia's categorization system for identity status.

so (x 2 = 13.69, df = 3, p < .01). Thus, the proportion of nonpersisters in each status except identity diffusion provides evidence for the predictive validity of Marcia's categorization system. It is of interest to note that of the nine moratoriums who transferred out of engineering, none entered the management program while all of the four foreclosures who left engineering entered management (p = .001 by a Fisher's exact test). In order to determine whether academic performance was a mediating variable in the relationship between identity status and nonpersistence, a comparison was made of the