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Dimensions and Categories Underlying Thinking About College Student Types 1
Author(s) -
Ashmore Richard D.,
Griffo Robert,
Green Raymond,
Moreno Amanda H.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00288.x
Subject(s) - psychology , convergence (economics) , perception , multidimensional scaling , sorting , social psychology , personality , cognition , mathematics education , statistics , mathematics , neuroscience , computer science , economics , programming language , economic growth
Previous work on implicit personality theory and the college student culture suggests that thinking about college student types should include academic involvement and social involvement dimensions. Further, positive and negative social, positive academic, and oppositional clusters of types were predicted based on studies of high school crowds. Using 85 college student type labels as stimuli, a free‐sorting method coupled with multidimensional scaling and hierarchical clustering analyses provided support for these hypotheses. Also, the results suggest convergence in the cognitive structure underlying perception of college student types across major demographic categories.