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Slide 3 lists a number of background characteristics, the majority of which did not differentiate between the group receiving psychiatric help and the controls. Among the variables that did discriminate between the groups, only three could be confirmed by testing on the Class of 1965. These were religious preference of the student, the number of close friends, and the student's evaluation of his past health...
Roman Catholics were the least likely to come for help, while those who stated their preference for a religious affiliation other than the common groups, or who stated they had no preference were most likely to come for help...
...matter of close friends, the tendency was for students who stated they had none to be more likely to get help, while those who had many friends were less likely to come for help. The association was not as strong the second year but reached a statistically significant level when all categories above three friends were combined...
...third variable, evaluation of past health, showed that students who rated their past health as only fair or good were more likely to come for psychiatric help than those who rated it as excellent...
Among the factors which showed a statistically significant relationship for the Class of 1964 but could not be supported in the following year, mention might be made of the direction of the association. For political preference, students coming for psychiatric help were more likely to list none, independent, or other instead of the standard Republican or Democrat. In answer to the question, how frequently did you date last year, psychiatric patients were more inclined to indicate none or rarely. Students were also asked whether or not their parents were living together, and if not, with whom did the student live...