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 < 0.01, multivariate η2 = 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 low social group reported less adaptive coping in T2 than the other two groups which did not differ from each other (Table 2, lower panel). Furthermore, students in the relatively low social group and the relatively low popularity group reported less defensive coping in T2 than students in the relatively high social group.