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TABLE IIE-15
MULTIPLE CORRELATIONS RESULTING FROM MULTIPLE REGRESSION
ANALYSIS OF SATISFACTION WITH INTERPERSONAL CLIMATE WITH
FAMILY AND HIGH SCHOOL BACKGROUND AS INDEPENDENT
VARIABLES
for First-Year and All Students, Separately
(R 2 in parentheses)
Year in School
First Year Students at All Levels
Satisfaction Factor
(Dependent Variable)
SATFAC .264 (.070) .183 (.034)
SATPEERS .437 (.191) .219 (.048)
Independent Variables in Multiple Regression Analysis: Mother’s education, father’s
education, Occupational prestige of father, whether had sibling who went to college,
support for engineering index, math and science high school grades, math SAT score,
verbal SAT score, participation in high school extra-curricular activities in math and
science.
Satisfaction with Interpersonal Climate and Academic Performance and
Participation in Extra-Curricular Activities over the Academic Year
In their first year at Rowan, students’ satisfaction with their peers is related
positively to their involvement in academic enrichment activities as well as their
receiving guidance in some sort of counseling activity (Table IIE-16). Such involvement
is not related to their satisfaction with student-faculty relationships, nor their satisfaction
with either factor of the interpersonal climate at later stages. In fact, at later stages in their
undergraduate career, student involvement in counseling activities is related to negative
opinions about student-faculty relations, perhaps reflecting the student’s difficulties in a
particular class or with a particular faculty member.
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