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SOCIAL DIFFICULTY IN A STUDENT SAMPLE
Author(s) -
BRYANT BRIDGET,
TROWER P. E.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1974.tb00761.x
Subject(s) - psychology , sample (material) , disturbance (geology) , social psychology , developmental psychology , paleontology , chemistry , chromatography , biology
S ummary . Recent research shows a high prevalence of psycho‐social disturbance in university students, and there is some evidence that inadequate social participation is associated with disturbance and with failure to complete courses. This study examines the extent, degree and type of difficulty in social situations reported by a random sample of Oxford University students. Nearly 10 per cent, mostly from lower social classes and small families, had great difficulty in, or tried to avoid, about six common social situations described in a questionnaire, and a principal components analysis discriminated different types of social difficulty.