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Survey of American College Students: Friendship and Romance on Campus

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    Report

  • 67 Pages
  • March 2019
  • Region: United States
  • Primary Research Group
  • ID: 4757739

This unique study presents the results of a representative sample of 1,065 full time US college students drawn from 4-year colleges in the United States about their evaluation of their success in forming friendships and romantic relationships on campus.  The 67-page reports gives detailed data on how well students think that their colleges have done in fostering student social relations on campus, and how well that they have done individually in forming attachments in college.  A significant body of research points to success in social relations as a key element in college admissions and retention strategy and in overall life success for college students.  This report gives college administrators detailed benchmarking information about how college students experience and evaluate social relations at their college, and their view of how their college fosters, or not, those relations.

Data in the report is presented in the aggregate and also broken out by a broad range of variables including but not limited to:  student age, major or intended major, year of class standing, college grades, SAT/ACT scores, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, public/private school status and many other variables. 

Just a few of the report’s major findings are that:

  • 48.2% of all students considered themselves rather successful or very successful in making friends at college.
  • 27.4% of students age 19 or younger said that they were not really looking for a romantic attachment at college.
  • Freshmen were more likely than seniors to say that their peers are very well integrated socially and have many connections at college.
  • Student grades and student perception of college performance in fostering human relationships on campus were positively correlated with students grades; the higher the grades, the greater the likelihood that students perceive the college social effort as favourable.

Table of Contents

1. THE QUESTIONNAIRE
Characteristics of the Sample

2. SUMMARY OF MAIN FINDINGS
Student Evaluation of their Own Success in Making Friends at College
Satisfaction with Finding Romantic Relationships on Campus
Perception of the Social Success of Others on Campus
Award a Letter Grade to Your College on the Extent to Which it Combat Social Isolation

List of Tables
Table 1.1 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college?
Table 1.2 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out by age of survey participant
Table 1.3 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out for survey participants from rural, suburban and urban areas of origin
Table 1.4 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out regional origins of the survey participant
Table 1.5 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out by college year class standing
Table 1.6 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out by approximate student family annual income
Table 1.7 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out by degree of religiosity of the survey participant
Table 1.8 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out by type of political beliefs of the survey participant
Table 1.9 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out by college grades of the survey participant
Table 1.10 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out by current or likely college major of the survey participant
Table 1.11 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out by gender of the survey participant
Table 1.12 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out for students in public or private colleges
Table 1.13 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out by type of domestic housing arrangement of the survey participant
Table 1.14 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out by employment circumstance of the survey participant
Table 1.15 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out by sexual orientation of the survey participant
Table 1.16 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out by ACT or SAT scores of the survey participant
Table 1.17 About how successful do you feel that you have been in making friends at your college? Broken out by which phrase best describes your racial or ethnic identity?
Table 2.1 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college?
Table 2.2 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out by age of survey participant
Table 2.3 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out for survey participants from rural, suburban and urban areas of origin
Table 2.4 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out regional origins of the survey participant
Table 2.5 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out by college year class standing
Table 2.6 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out by approximate student family annual income
Table 2.7 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out by degree of religiosity of the survey participant
Table 2.8 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out by type of political beliefs of the survey participant
Table 2.9 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out by college grades of the survey participant
Table 2.10 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out by current or likely college major of the survey participant
Table 2.11 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out by gender of the survey participant
Table 2.12 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out for students in public or private colleges:
Table 2.13 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out by type of domestic housing arrangement of the survey participant
Table 2.14 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out by employment circumstance of the survey participant
Table 2.15 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out by sexual orientation of the survey participant
Table 2.16 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out by ACT or SAT scores of the survey participant
Table 2.17 About how satisfied do you feel that you have been in finding romantic relationships at your college? Broken out by which phrase best describes your racial or ethnic identity?
Table 3.1 In general, the students around you seem to be:
Table 3.2 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out by age of survey participant
Table 3.3 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out for survey participants from rural, suburban and urban areas of origin
Table 3.4 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out regional origins of the survey participant
Table 3.5 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out by college year class standing
Table 3.6 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out by approximate student family annual income
Table 3.7 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out by degree of religiosity of the survey participant
Table 3.8 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out by type of political beliefs of the survey participant
Table 3.9 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out by college grades of the survey participant
Table 3.10 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out by current or likely college major of the survey participant
Table 3.11 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out by gender of the survey participant
Table 3.12 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out for students in public or private colleges:
Table 3.13 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out by type of domestic housing arrangement of the survey participant
Table 3.14 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out by employment circumstance of the survey participant
Table 3.15 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out by sexual orientation of the survey participant
Table 3.16 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out by ACT or SAT scores of the survey participant
Table 3.17 In general, the students around you seem to be: Broken out by which phrase best describes your racial or ethnic identity?
Table 4.1 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus.
Table 4.2 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out by age of survey participant
Table 4.3 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out for survey participants from rural, suburban and urban areas of origin
Table 4.4 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out regional origins of the survey participant
Table 4.5 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out by college year class standing
Table 4.6 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out by approximate student family annual income
Table 4.7 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out by degree of religiosity of the survey participant
Table 4.8 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out by type of political beliefs of the survey participant
Table 4.9 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out by college grades of the survey participant
Table 4.10 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out by current or likely college major of the survey participant
Table 4.11 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out by gender of the survey participant
Table 4.12 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out for students in public or private colleges:
Table 4.13 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out by type of domestic housing arrangement of the survey participant
Table 4.14 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out by employment circumstance of the survey participant
Table 4.15 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out by sexual orientation of the survey participant
Table 4.16 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out by ACT or SAT scores of the survey participant
Table 4.17 Grade your college on the extent to which it combats social isolation and fosters positive and respectful human relationships on campus. Broken out by which phrase best describes your racial or ethnic identity?

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