It examines who the student seeks out for early intimacy. Connections between perceptions of prior intimate relationships and current attitudes for intimacy with co-students, friends, family members, significant others are analyzed. The findings should offer information to University Life Offices as well as counseling, mental health, and social services which deal with how to establish the context for a positive learning environment. Theoretically, this questionnaire is linked to the dynamics of late adolescence as developed in Dynamic Functional Interaction, a theory of adolescent psychosocial development.
Analyses are of the total group, by year in school, by gender, and by gender and year.
Students respond to a 15 minute self report questionnaire of approximately 15 questions. Analyses to date include 2,700 students, freshmen and sophomore students. 800 additional students will be added this year.