Event Title
Life inside the bubble: Social belonging at Colby College
Location
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
Start Date
30-4-2015 2:00 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 3:55 PM
Project Type
Poster
Description
All college students face a significant transition moving from high school to college. One factor that can influence the ease of this transition is having a sense of belonging at the new institution. In the Colby Emotion and Mood Lab, a study was conducted investigating factors that either hinder or promote social belonging for students on Colbys campus. Research assistants facilitated discussion in 12 focus groups; topics stemmed from an original set of questions related to social belonging but conversations varied. The full content of the groups was then transcribed, coded, and analyzed following grounded theory methods to find overarching themes related to social belonging. The five most prevalent themes were: drinking, first year experience, under-represented identities, cliques, and extracurriculars. These results suggest that there are certain areas that offer enhanced and diminished levels of social belonging.
Faculty Sponsor
Erin Sheets
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Psychology Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1649
Life inside the bubble: Social belonging at Colby College
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
All college students face a significant transition moving from high school to college. One factor that can influence the ease of this transition is having a sense of belonging at the new institution. In the Colby Emotion and Mood Lab, a study was conducted investigating factors that either hinder or promote social belonging for students on Colbys campus. Research assistants facilitated discussion in 12 focus groups; topics stemmed from an original set of questions related to social belonging but conversations varied. The full content of the groups was then transcribed, coded, and analyzed following grounded theory methods to find overarching themes related to social belonging. The five most prevalent themes were: drinking, first year experience, under-represented identities, cliques, and extracurriculars. These results suggest that there are certain areas that offer enhanced and diminished levels of social belonging.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/56