Exploring STEM identity profiles among undergraduate STEM students and their relationships with gender, discipline, persistence and engagement: a latent profile analysis

Research has thoroughly demonstrated that the intention to pursue and persist in a Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM)-related career is influenced by the extent to which students perceive themselves as a STEM person, namely their STEM identity. However, previous studies have mainly used variable-centered approaches to explore relationships between identity and its precursors, which might hide nontrivial differences amongst subgroups of a sample. This study examines profiles of und