Differences among College Students' Perceptions of Family Satisfaction

1989 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-130
Author(s):  
Gregory E. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Satisfaction ◽  
Family Form ◽  
Different Ages ◽  
Home Community ◽  
Time Away

Differences in reported family satisfaction were found among groups of college students of different social class, family form, length of time away from home. Differences were not found among students of different ages, races, birth order, marital status, or size of home community.

College Students' Scores on Torrance's Tests of Creative Thinking

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
College Majors ◽  
Class Standing ◽  
Home Community ◽  
Mean Differences

54 social work students were given a questionnaire and the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Ss' mean fluency, flexibility, and originality scores were analyzed by t tests against own sex, age, birth order, father's occupation, size of home community, class standing, and Torrance test scores from 10 college samples. Significant mean differences were only between (a) sophomores' and seniors' fluency and flexibility, (b) sophomores' and juniors' flexibility, (c) Ss' fluency and that of five other samples of fluency scores, (d) Ss' flexibility and that of five other samples, (e) Ss' originality and that of six other samples, (f) seniors' scores and six other sets of seniors' scores, (g) sophomores' scores and four other sets of sophomores' scores. Generally, the higher Ss' class, the lower the creativity scores. Social work Ss tended to score lower than other college majors on the Torrance tests.

Outcomes of social class and classism in first- and continuing-generation college students.

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blake A. Allan ◽  
Patton O. Garriott ◽  
Chesleigh N. Keene
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Class

Social Class, Classism, Stigma, and College Students’ Attitudes Toward Counseling

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 761-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Na-Yeun Choi ◽  
Matthew J. Miller
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Research University ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
Public Research University ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Subjective Social Class

This study tested two competing theoretically and empirically derived models of college students’ attitudes toward seeking counseling. It extends the literature in this area by assessing the influence of objective and subjective social class, classism, and stigma on attitudes. We used structural equation modeling to analyze self-reported archival data from 2,230 incoming college students at a large, public research university in the Eastern United States. The results demonstrated the superiority of the direct and indirect effects of social class over the competing indirect effects model of social class. The results further indicated that objective social class related to attitudes toward seeking professional help indirectly through subjective social class, classism, and stigma. Finally, the results also showed that objective social class, subjective social class, and classism operated differently in the model. We discuss study limitations, future directions for research, and recommendations for practice.

Social-Class Bias in Clinical Judgment and Recommendation for Treatment Using the Biographical Vignette Technique

1975 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon J. Schofield ◽  
James D. Oakes
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Clinical Judgment ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Emotional Problems ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Class Bias ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychotic Behavior

An autobiographical vignette technique was used with 14 mental hospital attendants and 14 college students rating the severity of emotional problems and recommending various forms of treatment for fictitious individuals. A social-class bias was observed; the lower-class individuals were seen as having a greater need for help than the middle-class individuals, particularly when both were given descriptions of psychotic behavior. However, the recommendation of treatment was not affected by the social class of the individuals. The results are not consistent with those of a recent study by Routh and King which showed middle-class individuals were rated as having a greater need for help than lower-class individuals using a similar vignette technique.

Effects of Sex, Birth Order, Target's Relationship and Target's Sex on Self-Disclosure by College Students

1975 ◽  
Vol 37 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1167-1170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles G. Lord ◽  
Wayne F. Velicer
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Self Disclosure

Jourard's Self-disclosure Questionnaire (Jourard & Lasakow, 1958) was administered to 145 college students. Females were significantly more self-disclosing than males and both sexes disclosed more to friends than to siblings, with preference for disclosure to siblings of the same sex but no discrimination by sex in disclosure to friends.

Influences on Sibling Relations in Families with Married and Divorced Parents

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-477
Author(s):  
CAROL E. MacKINNON
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Sibling Relations ◽  
Family Form ◽  
Sibling Interaction ◽  
Sibling Interactions ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

Two regression analyses were performed that tested the relationships between the amount of negative sibling interaction and the amount of positive sibling interaction and measures of relationship quality and family form. When measures of husband-wife, mother-child, and father-child relationship quality were controlled, marital status was not significantly related to either measure of sibling interactions. However, when the marital status of the parents (family form) was controlled, both the quality of husband-wife relationship and the quality of mother-child relationship were positively related to positive sibling interaction and negatively related to negative sibling interaction. Regardless of family form, the quality of other relationships in the family were important predictors of sibling interactions.

Biosocial correlates of cognitive abilities

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. C. McManus ◽  
C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Verbal Ability ◽  
Parental Age ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
Verbal Abilities ◽  
Personal Variables ◽  
Mathematics Ability

SummaryThe children in the cohort followed by the National Child Development Study were tested for cognitive ability at the age of eleven, and the influence of a number of biological and social variables was sought on the results of tests of reading, mathematics, verbal and non-verbal abilities. Reading relates strongly to social class, birth order and parental age, suggesting strong social influences upon it, but it is also related to height and acquired myopia, suggesting biological influences. Mathematics ability relates to social class and parental age, but not to birth order, but its relationship with height, birthweight and maternal smoking suggests biological effects. Verbal ability and non-verbal ability have relatively few correlates apart from sex and region. It appears that different cognitive abilities show different relationships to social, biological and personal variables.

Social Class Fragility and College Students’ Career Decision-Making at a Private University

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-129
Author(s):  
Keaton C. Muzika ◽  
Aaron Hudyma ◽  
Patton O. Garriott ◽  
Dana Santiago ◽  
Jessica Morse
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Private University ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Career Interventions

The present study examined the role of social class in the career decision-making of undergraduate students attending a private university. Grounded theory was used to describe the process of social class and undergraduates’ career interests and plans. Interviews with undergraduate students ( N = 21) resulted in four categories and 13 axial codes. The grounded theory emerging from the data was labeled, social class fragility. Social class fragility captured the career goals and behaviors associated with participants’ striving for an acceptable career choice, based upon their social class contexts. The contextual factors described by participants included relational influences, social class consciousness, and vocational privilege. Results are discussed in terms of career interventions with college students attending universities that encapsulate upper middle-class norms.

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