“…With the goals of quantitative research being mainly generalizability and broadness (Polit & Beck, 2010), this implies a limited focus on lived experiences as explored by qualitative research. This is corroborated by the majority of early college research focusing on academic outcomes rather than affective aspects of early college (Berger et al, 2010;Edmunds et al, 2010;Edmunds et al, 2012;Fischetti et al, 2011;Heilbronner et al, 2010;Locke et al, 2014;Oliver et al, 2010;Sayler, 2015;Schumacker et al, 1995;Sethna et al, 2001). Some work focuses on affective aspects specifically Noble et al, 1999;Shepard et al, 2009), but it is a bit more common for papers to explicitly investigate both (Dai & Steenbergen-Hu, 2015;Janos et al, 1989;Woodcock & Olson, 2013), as the two topics are inherently linked, so they tend to bleed into each other (i.e.…”