The relationships between residential setting (home or away) and gender and the perceptions of late adolescents of their relationships with their parents were studied for 404 undergraduates. Living away is associated with greater independence, support, and mutual respect between students and parents. Women report more mutuality and support than do…

Commuting students make up sixty-two percent of the fall 1975 student body and represent the principal source of enrollment growth at UNC-G. The Office of Institutional Research conducted a survey of 2,140 commuter and resident students in the spring of 1975. A stratified random sample was designed so that students in the different undergraduate…

The commuting university student has traditionally been characterized in educational literature as less affluent, intellectually less sophisticated and more closely tied to home and family than his peer who lives in university housing. Such generalizations, while historically accurate, do not take into account factors that are bringing older,…