Effects of Coresidential Living on the Attitudes, Self-Image, and Role Expectations of College Women
ELIZABETH AUB REID M.D.1
1 Associate Psychiatrist, University Health Services, Harvard University, 75 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138 and Associate, South House, Radcliffe College
The author interviewed matched groups of college women to study the effects on women of coresidential dormitory life. As compared to those in all-women's dormitories, women in the coresidential setting were found to have more satisfying relationships with both men and women, higher self-esteem, conceptions of masculinity and femininity that were less stereotyped, and more egalitarian role expectations.
