Follow-up ANOVA and post-hoc test, adjusted for inflated type I
error risk, revealed that the students in the relatively low social group reported lower need satisfaction than the other two groups in which students did not differ from each other (Table 2 lower panel). Also, in partial support of Hypothesis 1, students in the relatively lowpopularity group reported significantly less need frustration than the relatively high social group, while the relatively low social group did not differ from the two groups either. A similar pattern existed for coping as students in the relatively low social group reported less adaptive coping than the other two groups. Yet, the latter two groups differed in the defensive coping as students with a relatively low popularity profile reported less defensive coping than students with the relatively high social goal profile. The relatively low popularity and low social goal groups did not differ from each other. Taken together, the group comparisons provided partial support to Hypothesis 1 as the relatively low popularity group did differ from the relatively high social group in need frustration and defensive coping (but not in need satisfaction).
3.3. Differences in coping five months later (Hypothesis 2)
We examined through MANOVA) to what extent cluster membership could explain differences in T2 adaptive and defensive coping. The MANOVA was statistically significant, Wilk's Λ = 0.919, F(4, 790) = 8.55, p b 0.01, multivariate η
2
= 0.04. Follow-up ANOVA showed, after post-hoc adjustment for inflated type I error, statistically significant differences among the three groups in both T2 adaptive and defensive coping. Specifically, students in the relatively lowsocial group reported less adaptive coping in T2 than the other two groups which did not differ fromeach other (Table 2, lower panel). Furthermore, students in the relatively low social group and the relatively low popularity