Examining Gender Differences in Quality of Life Issues among URI Students

1. Examining Gender Differences in Quality of Life Issues among URI Students Bettina B. Höppner Spring 2003 SQOLAS Project Presentation prepared for the President’s Commission on the Status of Women

2. The SQOLAS Project • SQOLAS = Student Quality of Life and Satisfaction • Supported by • Student Affairs (Thomas R. Dougan) • Counseling Center (James F. Campbell) • Campus assessments to date: • Housing and Residential Life Survey: 1997-2002 • Counseling Center Survey: 1993-2002 • SQOLAS Survey: 1997-2001 • Career Services Survey: 1997, 2001 • Diversity Climate Assessment: 2001 • Dining Services: 1998

3. Relevant Data • Stress and coping • SQOLAS: 2001 • Health • SQOLAS: 2001 • Personal safety • HRL: 1999-2002 • Sexual harassment • Counseling Center: 1993-2002 • ‘chilly environment’ • Diversity Climate Assessment: 2001

4. Quality of Life – campus-wide 2001

5. Stress and Coping

6. Health: Common Ailments

7. Health: Infections

8. Health: Conditions

9. Health: Breathing

10. Health: Miscellaneous

11. Counseling Center 1993 - 2002

12. Counseling Center Clients

13. Main Counseling Topics

14. Other Counseling Topics

15. Physical/Sexual Assault

16. Physical/Sexual Assault (%)

17. Racial/Ethnic/Sexual Harassment

18. Racial/Ethnic/Sexual Harassment (%)

19. Housing and Residential Life 1999 - 2002

20. Dormitory Safety 1999

21. Dormitory Safety 2000

22. Dormitory Safety 2001

23. Dormitory Safety 2002

24. Diversity Climate 2001

25. Diversity Climate 2001 • Sample • 149 URI students • 72.3% Caucasian • 61.5% lower class standing • 59.7% female • 0.7% gay/lesbian/bisexual • 0.7% with disability • Measure • Campus Diversity Questionnaire (CDQ-R) (Landrum,Vandernoot, & Dillinger, 1999) • Rating of campus climate regarding multicultural issues (ethnic background, sexual orientation, disability)

26. Diversity Climate: Subscales

27. Diversity Climate: Items