Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even though data on satisfaction with secondary school are available on only one sample, that for the Class of 1965, the findings are given in slide 7. Dissatisfaction with secondary school was associated with the seeking of psychiatric help. There is good reason to suspect that the association in this table is not due to the one in a hundred chance probability, because satisfaction with the freshman year will prove important in the next section...
...summary, the majority of background factors showed no significant relationship with seeking psychiatric help, whether these factors were education, ethnic membership, region of the country, or intelligence and previous academic performance of the student...
Students who report that they never go to church tend to be somewhat over-represented in the psychiatric help group, while those who attend regularly are underrepresented. Bear in mind once again that the reported church attendance is relative to the freshman year, while psychiatric ehlp pertains to all four years, Furthermore, if the student attends the same church each time he worships, he is less likely to come for hlep...
...medical form filled out by the student at the time of his freshman physical examination. "Do you have any problems that you would like to discuss with any doctor?" About a sixth of the students answered yes and among this group a rather high proportion eventually sought psychiatric help. Apparently at time of matriculation some students could articulate their need for help and many of them eventually sought professional...
Suggestive correlations with the use of psychiatric help were also observed in two other questions: "Have you ever felt out of place at Harvard?" and "What kind of a time are you having at Harvard?" Both questions have an element of the satisfaction-dissatisfaction continuum in them. For the 1964 sample only, students who admitted they had felt out of place, or who said they were not having a very good time at Harvard were overrepresented in the psychiatric group. Although the association could not be replicated, the data do tend to strengthen our findings about the dissatisfaction variable...