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BCH analyses adjusting for the corresponding T1 outcome and demographic covariates showed significant overall variation in T2 outcomes across combinations of SFES group and materialism profile. Across SFES groups, students in the high-materialism profile had significantly higher depressive symptoms than those in the low-materialism profile after Holm correction, whereas corresponding life-satisfaction differences were not significant. Interaction-type tests showed no significant differences across SFES groups in the associations between materialism profiles and either well-being outcome. 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