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Cooney, Rosemary Santana; Nonnamaker, John Bishop – Journal of College Student Development, 1992
Examined differences in alcohol use between one university's commuting students (n=99) who lived at home with their parents and residential students (n=212). Found that resident students exhibited greater frequencies of alcohol use and abuse than did commuters as a function of both precollege factors and involvement in traditional college life.…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, College Students, Commuting Students, Comparative Analysis

Pascarella, Ernest; And Others – Journal of College Student Development, 1993
Tested hypothesis that living on campus fostered cognitive growth by estimating relative first-year gains in reading comprehension, mathematical reasoning, and critical thinking of resident (n=40) and commuter (n=170) first-year college students. Controlling for precollege cognitive level, academic motivation, age, work responsibility, and extent…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Freshmen, College Housing, Commuting Students
Sessa, Frances M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2005
Differences between residential and commuter first-year male college students were examined with respect to students' perceptions of the parent-child relationship and its influence on students' use of alcohol and marijuana. Fifty residential and 57 commuter students completed questionnaires to assess their perceptions of parenting and the…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Student Attitudes, Questionnaires, Child Rearing