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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
Table 1
Number of Items, Cronbach's Alpha, Scale Mean, Scale Standard
Deviations, Item Means, and Scale Standard Deviations for the Six
Factors
Items Alpha Scale M SD Item M Min Max
Purpose 8 .867 26.41 6.16 3.30 3.05 3.66
Impact 4 .715 15.93 2.47 3.98 3.91 4.17
Conform 4 .639 11.17 2.89 2.79 2.58 3.10
Perception 4 .723 10.68 3.39 2.67 2.32 2.98
Moral 2 .527 7.34 1.66 3.67 3.32 4.01
Difficult 4 .735 10.03 2.91 2.50 1.95 2.89
Note. Min = Minimum Item Values; Max = Maximum Item Values
Table 2
Intercorrelations of Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale With Survey of
Attitudes About Fraternities and Sororities Subscales
Subscale 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1. Esteem --
2. Purpose -.21 * --
3. Impact -.04 .34 * --
4. Conform -.05 .40 * -.04 --
5. Perception -.12 .64 * .23 * .35 * --
6. Moral -.13 -.08 .26 * -.21 * -.14 --
7. Difficult -.13 .46 * -.17 .44 * .43 * -.25 * --
Note. * Correlation is significant at the 0.001 level.
Table 3
Means and Standard Deviations for Dependent Variables
Women Men AfAm
Factor M SD M SD M SD
Esteem [17.98.sub.a] 3.8 [16.72.sub.a] 3.2 [16.03.sub.a] 3.1
Purpose 26.27 5.9 26.54 6.4 [29.92.sub.a] 4.3
Impact [16.68.sub.a] 1.8 [14.80.sub.a] 2.8 [16.78.sub.a] 2.2
Conform [10.80.sub.a] 2.7 [11.71.sub.a] 3.0 [12.21.sub.ab] 2.8
Perception 10.74 3.1 10.60 3.6 [12.84.sub.a] 2.4
Moral [7.71.sub.a] 1.5 [6.76.sub.a] 1.7 7.37 1.4
Difficult [9.40.sub.a] 2.6 [10.98.sub.a] 3.1 [10.60.sub.a] 2.5
EuAm LaAm
Factor M SD M SD
Esteem [17.20.sub.b] 3.5 [18.10.sub.ab] 3.7
Purpose [26.56.sub.a] 5.5 [24.64.sub.a] 6.5
Impact [15.94.sub.a] 2.0 15.86 2.4
Conform [10.87.sub.a] 2.7 [10.72.sub.b] 2.8
Perception [10.24.sub.a] 3.2 9.89 3.4
Moral 7.10 1.7 7.59 1.6
Difficult [10.32.sub.b] 3.0 9.30.sub.ab 2.9
Greek Non-Greek
Factor M SD M SD
Esteem 16.38 3.2 17.69 3.7
Purpose [32.40.sub.a] 5.0 [25.22.sub.a] 5.6
Impact [16.69.sub.a] 2.3 [15.77.sub.a] 2.4
Conform 11.76 3.2 11.05 2.8
Perception [13.80.sub.a] 2.1 [10.05.sub.a] 3.2
Moral 6.92 1.7 7.42 1.6
Difficult 12.00 3.0 9.65 2.7
Note. AfAm=African American, EuAm=European American, LaAm=Latino/a
American
Note. Means in a row sharing subscripts are significantly different.
References
Baler, J.L. & Williams, P.S. (1983). Fraternity hazing revisited: Current alumni and active member attitudes toward hazing. Journal of College Student Personnel, 24(4), 300-305.
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