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Developing an instrument to assess college students' attitudes toward pledging and hazing in Greek letter organizations - Statistical Data Included
College Student Journal, Sept, 2001 by Kevin Cokley, Kesi Miller, Dana Cunningham, Janice Motoike, Aisha King, Germine Awad
Demographic Sheet. Demographic information included gender, ethnicity, age, educational classification, and Greek membership status.
Procedure
Undergraduate students in liberal arts classes (ex. psychology) were recruited to participate in the study. An informed consent form was included in the research packets, and students were instructed to read it before participating. To ensure Greek member representation, research assistants contacted the presidents of Greek organizations to describe the study and ask for their participation.
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After several analyses were run using principal axis factor extraction and direct oblimin rotation, a seven factor solution, which accounted for approximately 52% of the variance, was determined to be the most interpretable. At this point several items were dropped because of failure to meet the .40 criteria. The seven factors were initially identified as the following: factor 1 (purpose of pledging) 24.7 percent; factor 2 (impact of pledging) 11.4 percent; factor 3 (conformity to pledging rules) 3.6 percent; factor 4 (perceptions of Greek organizations) 3.5 percent; factor 5 (moral concerns about pledging) 3 percent; factor 6 (beliefs about alcohol use) 2.8 percent; and factor 7 (beliefs about pledging difficulty) 2.5 percent.
A reliability analysis was performed on each of the seven factors. Factor six proved to be problematic, in that the reliability analysis revealed an extremely negatively skewed coefficient which indicated that this factor was uninterpretable. It was subsequently not considered in any further analysis. Table 1 shows the characteristics of the remaining six factors.
Pearson R correlations were computed for each of the dependent variables and self-esteem. A significance level of .001 was used to assess the correlations. Self-esteem had a significant inverse relationship with purpose of pledging (r = -.21, p < .000). Several SAAP subscales were significantly correlated with each other. Table 2 reports the results of the correlations.
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