Item Detail
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5022
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1
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English
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Morality on the Campus
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Summer 1968
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3
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76-81
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"The present paper is the product of a more elaborate study of sexual behavior and sexual attitudes of Mormon college students as compared to non-Mormon college students in one large region of the United States. The respondents were students from four major western universities in 1949-1950 and again in 1960. The students were representative of all students enrolled in sociology classes at the selected universities at the time, the great majority of them being majors in subjects other than sociology. The responses were given in anonymous classroom settings in which great care was taken to establish a scientific frame of mind. Tests of validity and of reliability showed that responses were remarkably consistent. Over 6,000 students responded. The responses, some of which will be presented in more detail later, showed a general and statistically significant difference between Mormon and non-Mormon responses, the Mormons appearing to be more chaste, in support of the hypotheses which the study was designed to test." [Author]