Date of Award
8-2018
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Sociology
First Advisor
Dr. Patrick Cundiff
Second Advisor
Dr. Chair Jesse Smith
Third Advisor
Dr. Whitney Decamp
Keywords
Deviance, marijuana use, college funding, binge drinking, strain and bond
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
This study examines the effects of the source of college funding on student participation in four deviant behaviors: monthly binge drinking, monthly marijuana use, illicit drug use, and academic cheating. Using secondary data from a self-reported online survey conducted at a midwestern University, competing hypotheses based in general strain theory and social bond theory, were tested. Logistic regression analyses of the four deviant behaviors suggest that the source of college funding has a very limited effect. Only in the cases of marijuana use and illicit drug use were significant relationships observed; where students whose funding came from their parents were more likely to have engaged in monthly marijuana use and more likely to have engaged in illicit drug use than students who were self-funded. Given the limited effect of college funding source neither theoretical perspective was found to be supported in their expected effect of self-funding.
Recommended Citation
Darling, Blake A., "College Self-Funding Predicting Deviant Behaviors" (2018). Masters Theses. 3692.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/3692