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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: twyacht on November 26, 2009, 07:42:10 PM
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The Winner of the coveted "NO S*** Sherlock" Award goes to lead researcher Dr. Brian J. Willoughby, who conducted the study while at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul and is now a visiting professor at Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City.
Ready for the study???????
College Coed Housing Linked to Binge Drinking and Sex
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 3:09 PM
In findings that may confirm parents' worries, a new study suggests that coed college dorm lifestyle encourage kids to drink heavily and have more sex.
In a survey of more than 500 students at five U.S. universities, researchers found that students living in coed housing were 2.5 times more likely than those in all-male or all-female dorms to admit to binge-drinking on a weekly basis. They were also more than twice as likely to say they'd had at least three sex partners in the past year.
The findings, published in the Journal of American College Health, may not surprise many college students.
"A lot of the reaction we've been getting from students is, 'Well, we've known that,'" said lead researcher Dr. Brian J. Willoughby, who conducted the study while at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul and is now a visiting professor at Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City.
However, Willoughby told Reuters Health, the findings should make more universities, researchers and parents aware of the issue.
He noted that 90 percent of university housing in the U.S. is now coed -- part of a larger move away from the traditional notion that colleges should act as stand-ins for parents and enforce rules on students' social behavior.
"This transition to coed housing has happened without an evaluation of its effects," Willoughby said.
In their study, Willoughby and colleague Dr. Jason S. Carroll found that more than 41 percent of students in coed housing said they binged on a weekly basis, versus just fewer than 18 percent of those in single-sex dorms.
And whereas 63 percent of students in single-sex housing said they'd had no sexual partners in the past year, this was true of only 44 percent of students in coed dorms. Of students in coed housing, almost 13 percent said they had had three or more sexual partners in the past year, compared with 5 percent of students in single-sex dorms.
Moreover, Willoughby said, the findings did not appear to be a matter of "selection" -- that is, kids who are more prone to drinking and sex being more likely to request coed housing.
Few college students specifically ask for single-sex housing, the researcher noted, and most that end up in those dorms were simply placed there by their universities.
Willoughby and Carroll also surveyed the students on characteristics like religiousness and personality traits such as impulsivity and extroversion, and found that those factors did not explain away the connection between coed housing and drinking and sex.
Willoughby speculated that coed dorms may implicitly set different "social norms" than single-sex housing does. Students, he explained, may expect coed dorms to have higher rates of drinking and sex, which may make them more likely to live up to those expectations.
"It's not necessarily simply about women and men living together," Willoughby said.
SOURCE: Journal of American College Health 2009.
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I'm stunned and was completely unaware that this could occur!!!!!
Blowing my son's college savings on more guns.... ;D
I can't believe this was actually a ligit "study". Perhaps our resident Professor could enlighten us...
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There is a time and place for everything and its called college
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK-Dqj4fHmM
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Any idiot could figure it out.
It took a genius to get GRANT MONEY for the research ;D
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If I could be in a dorm drinking and having sex I'd sign up for it right now.
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There is a time and place for everything and its called college
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK-Dqj4fHmM
And for once Eric and I agree. The notion of "in loco parentis" worked when the age of majority was 21. Most college students could be policed like high school students are today. Since it hit 18 that is off the table. They are legal adults. I have enough trouble getting them to study. If you want me to police their sex lives on top of this, I want a raise and combat pay. ;D
FQ13 Who, like that undersung hero, Sgt. Shultz, hears nothing, sees nothing and knows nothing. If daddy has a problem, maybe he should have raised his little darling better, because sooner or later, they are all going to leave the nest. How they react to that freedom is when you know whether you've done a good job as a parent or not. My job is to teach them politics, not sexual morality. You either did your job by the time I see them or you didn't.
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Three women was a slow WEEK when I was that age....
You're right, this took at least a PhD to figure out that young people, when in a group, tend to drink heavily and try and boink each others brains out.....Brilliant!
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Any idiot could figure it out.
It took a genius to get GRANT MONEY for the research ;D
I think I need a grant to go back to school for further research...
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I need to figure out how to get grant money, then publicly state something that anyone can tell you. ::)
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sound like fun.
shame i was stoopid and joined the army.
makes you wonder what could be different.
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I need to figure out how to get grant money, then publicly state something that anyone can tell you. ::)
But do you have statistical PROOF ;D
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But do you have statistical PROOF ;D
HA HA HA
;D
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Was this the same professor that did a study as to why prisoners try to escape jail?
(They try to escape because the prisoners don't like being in jail! Duh! Who'd a thunk?)
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Y'all may mock, but they got paid. ;D
FQ13 who hates statistics taking over my profession. Common sense has gone out the window and it ain't the truth unless the answer is 47. >:(
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47= the answer to Life, the Universe and everything ;D
Look at this way FQ, It may be common sense but it gives you some thing to tell the 4 year olds that have learned the word "Why". ;D
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But do you have statistical PROOF ;D
That is the direction I was going with my thought. Let's see ... We send kids to college, we put them in co-ed dorms, we give them access to bars and liquor stores, we give them all kinds of new freedom and privacy, we see these kids getting in trouble with alcohol and sex (they are showing up in the back seats of cop cars, hospital er's and pregnancy centers), but it isn't a fact until we spend a million dollars and five years on a study to come up with exact statistics >:(
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I need a application to be a test subject.
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I need a application to be a test subject.
If your luck is anything like mine, you'd probably get stuck in the control group. An all boys dorm at a Babtist school. Best you'd get is dancing. ;D
FQ13
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If your luck is anything like mine, you'd probably get stuck in the control group. An all boys dorm at a Babtist school. Best you'd get is dancing. ;D
FQ13
If they're Southern Baptists, you might not even get that...
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Knowing my luck it will be a prison.
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Better yet it would be a man hating liberal college.
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Y'all may mock, but they got paid. ;D
FQ13 who hates statistics taking over my profession. Common sense has gone out the window and it ain't the truth unless the answer is 47. >:(
47= the answer to Life, the Universe and everything ;D
Tom, you got snookered by FQ. Yet more proof he is rarely - if ever - right. ::)
42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. ;D
47 is just a faux libertarian's answer to - whatever. ;)
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CRAP ! My "Hitchhikers Guide" doesn't have an index so I can't check. (Cheap edition, it doesn't even say "DON"T PANIC" on the cover )
Should have known better than to ASS U ME that a Professor knew what he was talking about ::)