College satisfaction of mature college women

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the college adjustment of mature women by measures of satisfaction with college life. Further, characteristics of mature women, such as sex-role identification, age, marital status, responsibility for children, college rank and major, full - or part-time status, and career and/or family goals, were related to measures of satisfaction with college. College student satisfaction and sex roles were measured by available standardized instruments. Subjects were pre-baccalaureate, regularly enrolled female students a t a major university. The population included only those students who reported a birth date of 1950 or earlier. Seventy-nine volunteer subjects completed the College Student Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSSQ), the Maferr Inventory of Feminine Values (MIFV), and the Personal Data Inventory (PDl). The data furnished by these subjects were analyzed by multivariate statistical procedures. Multiple regression analysis utilized age, marital status, responsibility for children, full-time status, and sex-role perception classifications to predict college student satisfaction. Multiple discriminant analyses differentiated separately defined groups of subjects (age, marital status, etc.) by the combination of satisfaction variables (Compensation, Social Life, Working Conditions, Recognition, and Quality of Education) operating together..