This study was concerned with determining if: (1) the
effectiveness of residence hall student government varies according to
the perceptions of its role held by residence hall student staff and
government officers, and the hall type and population; (2) the
perception of hall student government held by student staff varies
according to their age, time in position and gender; and (3) the
perception of hall student government by student officers varies
according to their age, time in office and gender.
The survey population included 48 residence hall directors, 209
student staff and 281 student officers from northwestern land grant
universities. Hall directors were surveyed to determine perceived
effectiveness of their hall's student government, and the resident
population. Student staff and officer perceptions of the role of hall
student government were obtained by utilizing the government section
of the Residence Hall Attitude Scale (Murphy 1971). Age, gender, time
in position or office and type of hall were also provided by the
students.
Multiple regression analysis was used to test three hypotheses at
a .05 level of significance. Of the hypothesized relationships, only
gender was found to be significantly related to the variance in
perceptions of role of hall student government. In the case of both
student staff and officers, women were more favorable toward residence
hail student government than men. The combined independent variables
of age, gender and time in position or office were found, however, to
account for only small percentages (4.4%, staff; 7.8%, officers) of
the total variance.
The regression equation for effectiveness of hall student
government failed to account for significant variance due to any of
the independent variables of student staff and officer perceptions,
type or population of hall. All variables combined accounted for only
7.7% of the variance in perception.
The results of this research suggest that hypothesized
relationships between various demographic factors and perceptions, and
effectiveness of residence hall student government do not exist. This
indicates that some other variables must be used to attempt prediction
of either effectiveness or role perceptions of hall student
government. / Graduation date: 1990
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/37938 |
| Date | 06 June 1989 |
| Creators | Bachman, William C. |
| Contributors | Ahrendt, Kenneth M. |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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