PERCEPTIONS OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CLIMATE OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY IN RELATIONSHIP TO MODE OF COLLEGE RESIDENCE.
Abstract
The major purpose of this investigation was to determine if differences existed between residents of female residence halls, male residence halls, fraternities, and sororities in their perceptions of the psychological climate at Purdue University. Two residence units of each type were selected at random from the population of that type and included in the study.The data for this study were collected between March 26, 1973, and April 13, 1973. Each of the 346 out of a potential 496 subjects completed the College and University Environment Scales and the Vocational Preference Inventory. Moreover, information concerning the sex, school, previous semester's grade point average, graduation point average, classification, and residency was collected. The number of respondents from female residence halls, male residence halls, coed residence halls, fraternities, and sororities was 66, 46, 59, 81, and 94 respectively. The percentage return was 69.
Degree
Ph.D.
Subject Area
School counseling
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