Thursday, 19 November 2009
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DUH! - Coed Dorms Promote Unhealthy Habits
According to LiveScience.com, a new study finds that students who live in coed housing at college are 2.5 times more likely to binge drink, along with higher chances of watching pornography and engaging in sexual activities with multiple partners.
Interestingly enough, about 90% of college dorms in the United States are coed.
"In a time when college administrators and counselors pay a lot of attention to alcohol problems on their campuses, this is a call to more fully examine the influence of the housing environment on student behavior," reported Jason Carroll, a coauthor of the study and a professor at Brigham Young University.
Also, a 2007 study found that - in a nutshell - college can actually bring out the predisposition in some students for alcoholism.
What do you think of this study? Are you surprised, or no? If you have ever lived in a coed dorm, did you think that you developed unhealthy habits (like drinking, doing drugs, unsafe sex, etc..)?
For the full article, please visit www.LiveScience.com.
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Comments (56)
I live in a co-ed dorm at a Christian campus (go ahead and gasp). We have rules in place where we're only allowed on the opposite sex's floor during certain times of the weekend. It works out really well for us and we don't really feel deprived. Although the non-alcoholism may be attributed to the Christian atmosphere, I feel like we don't have as many sexual problems since we do have those rules in place.
I actually read this article awhile ago on live science ;p xanga updates are soo late.
"Interestingly enough, about 90% of college dorms in the United States are 90%."
Really now?
Studies have been done proving in coed dorms the relationships formed come to be almost like "brother and sister."
I think coed dorms are great and to even suggest gender discrimination is better is....
IGNORANT, DUH!
Brigham Young is a predominantly Mormon university... of course they are going to be against co-ed housing!!
I lived in a coed dorm for two years and never had any of those problems. I think that this is oversimplifying the matter and taking only one aspect of the data into consideration. Perhaps it's due to the fact that schools that don't have coed housing tend to be more conservative or strict? I don't know, but this survey sounds very incomplete.
Personally, I would have hated living in an all female environment.
@SunDamage@xanga - Seriously. This is not an actual study, it is biased in the extreme.
Correlation =/= causation
just sayin. Do coed dorms make people unhealthy or do unhealthy people choose to live in coed dorms? Also there's likely a gender bias because non-coed dorms are more often women's only than men's only.
"Interestingly enough, about 90% of college dorms in the United States are 90%."
Uh... what?
sounds like more fun to me. Bring on the coed dorms!
The study doesn't surprise me. I much prefer single-gender dorms, having lived in them for 4 years. Less drama, noise, and sexual assault. Honestly, people--the rape stats are WAY higher in co-eds. I felt safer in my own back in the say.
Sure I buy it- but not because I think that living in a co-ed environment turns you into an alcoholic. Methinks that there is some self-selection involved in who lives in co-ed dorms that could conceivably be related to drinking. Also- the study obviously didn't address single sex environments like frats and sororities...which, pardon the skepticism, do not strike me as particularly dry environments.
Something tells me this study might not be all that scientific...
I don't see what's the big deal. I lived in a co-ed dorm and there was just as much alcoholism and sex as a single sex dorm. Besides, if the kids want to do it, nothing can stop them.
Eh drinking just comes with college. Coed dorms make college so much more fun. Same sex dorms, now that is a bad idea. So many people get pissed that they can't meet people of opposite sex when they get stuck in a same sex dorm.
Yeah. People who are likely to drink, go to college places where there are situations to do so. People who want to have more interaction with the opposite sex (but will most likely NOT succeed because the are living in social dorms) will probably look at porn.
Duh.
I can't believe they spent money on this research.
I live in a coed dorm and I honestly think its just being in college that allows you the opportunity to do all of these things. Why would living in a coed dorm be the cause if in life you live in an apartment technically its "coed" and people wouldn't say that would have the same effect?
Again, its the college atmosphere. Its the way college is portrayed in movies and tv. Its what students want to have: a good time! I don't think having a boy instead of a girl live next door is going to make a difference.
@wwjdgirl_bug@xanga - I also go to a Christian institution and i disagree with the lack of alcoholism having to do with the christian atmosphere. It seems like they do nothing but drink here ><
I drink a lot more now that I live in a house with my friends than when I lived in a co-ed dorm. Although it's still not binge drinking.
What's with the higher chance of watching porn? I wouldn't want my roommate to catch me doing that... same goes for multiple sex partners, haha
I lived in an all girls dorm one year and a co-ed dorm another year... It didn't really make a difference in how much people drank or had sex as far as I could tell. When I lived in the girls dorm though, it was because it was the cheapest. I couldn't afford booze. (or porn I guess. We didn't have a TV either...)
I think it's a case of correlation and not causation. but I don't have any proof other than my own experience...
I think if people want to party and drink in college they are going to whether they live in a coed dorm or not. I went to a huge party school and all the dorms were coed, yet some were party dorms while others weren't. Everyone knew which dorms were in the party areas and if they really wanted to party they tried to get into those dorms. I lived in four different dorms while I was there and they each had their own vibe, and none had a lot of partying going on and that was at a school that people liked to brag about because it was in the top five for party schools.
they stuck me in an all girls dorm, and i hate it.
no surprises here.
nope. not surprised. lol
this information, obviously should be discarded, because its a mornon college.....
they have stricter rules & expectations than the general population.what they see as a "problem"is probably normal to some/ a lot more people.....enough said.