The impact of living environment on satisfaction with social relationships upon commencing university O'Connor, Elodie J., Staiger, Petra K. and Chambers, Susan 2007, The impact of living environment on satisfaction with social relationships upon commencing university, in Generations of relationships and relationships across generations : Combined 7th Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society's Psychology of Relationships Interest Group and International Association for Relationship Research Mini-conference, Australian Psychological Society, Melbourne, Vic., pp. 94-99. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title The impact of living environment on satisfaction with social relationships upon commencing university Author(s) O'Connor, Elodie J. Staiger, Petra K. orcid.org/0000-0002-6968-5015 Chambers, Susan Conference name Australian Psychological Society. Conference (7th : 2007 : Melbourne, Vic.) Conference location Melbourne, Vic. Conference dates 10-11 November 2007 Title of proceedings Generations of relationships and relationships across generations : Combined 7th Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society's Psychology of Relationships Interest Group and International Association for Relationship Research Mini-conference Editor(s) Pearce, Zoe J. Publication date 2007 Conference series Australian Psychological Society Conference Start page 94 End page 99 Total pages 6 Publisher Australian Psychological Society Place of publication Melbourne, Vic. Summary Making the transition to university is a significant life event for many young people. It is believed that strong social relationships can help make this transition more successful. In this study, 201 full-time, first year university students completed a survey in order to examine whether those students who remained living with their parents differed on a range of social relationship variables compared to those who lived on-campus or off-campus independently from their parents. Results revealed that students living independently off-campus reported significantly lower satisfaction with their living environment and opportunities to make new friends at university, as well as significantly higher levels of depression, and higher levels of loneliness which approached significance. These findings indicate that universities may need to focus more attention on this particular sub-group, in an attempt to increase the successful transition of students from high school to university. Future research could endeavour to develop strategies for increasing university students' social relationships and support networks. ISBN 9780909881351 0909881359 Language eng Field of Research 170103 Educational Psychology Socio Economic Objective 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30020246 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Health School of Psychology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 01 Oct 2009, 09:49:18 EST Thu, 01 Oct 2009, 14:30:48 EST Tue, 27 Oct 2009, 09:33:19 EST Fri, 09 Apr 2010, 08:41:03 EST Fri, 09 Apr 2010, 08:46:03 EST Thu, 09 Feb 2012, 10:13:07 EST Wed, 02 Jul 2014, 14:01:20 EST Wed, 17 Sep 2014, 19:00:18 EST Fri, 19 Sep 2014, 12:09:53 EST Mon, 22 Jan 2018, 13:30:52 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1004 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 01 Oct 2009, 09:49:18 EST