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Coed Living Linked to Higher Binge Drinking on College Campuses
For those parents who are checking out colleges with their children to determine the best location, the idea of coed living certainly sparks some concerns. While the most obvious is the suggested impact of the opposite sex living so close, recent research shows the concerns go even deeper.
A recent Science Daily release examines a new study that finds students placed in coed housing are 2.5 times more likely to binge drink each week than students living in all-male or all-female housing.
The study surveyed more than 500 students from five college campuses around the country and found 42 percent of students in coed housing reported binge drinking on a weekly basis. Only 8 percent of students in gender-specific housing reported the same.
"In a time when college administrators and counselors pay a lot of attention to alcohol-related problems on their campuses, this is a call to more fully examine the influence of housing environment on student behavior," said Jason Carroll, a study coauthor and professor of family life at Brigham Young University.
One of the more interesting findings from this study is that the majority of students living in coed housing were put there by the university, not necessarily by their own choice. Study researchers highlight that college housing offices generally assume students prefer coed housing and give them option to “opt out” if single-gender is available.
The study also found that students in coed dorms were significantly more likely to have had multiple sexual partners in the past year – which is perhaps not as surprising as the binge drinking. Pornography was also higher among students in coed dorms.
While one could easily write off the findings of this study to the type of colleges investigated, the sample was actually well rounded as it included two public universities in the Midwest and another on the West Coast, as well as a liberal arts college and a religious university on the East Coast.