Friendship Among Roommates – First Year Students’ Experience in a Malaysia Public University

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200921.024How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Relationships, Adolescents, First-Year Experience, Self-Development, Campus, Roommates

Abstract

This paper studies the role of college roommate relationships in students’ college adjustment during their first year study in a selected university campus. It used questionnaire to collect data from 105 respondents in a public university. Results suggest there are differences between male and female students’ experiences in developing relationships with their roommates. The findings revealed that adaptation process is necessary in order to assist the students in coping with the new environment.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Azian binti Abd Aziz @Ahmad
AU  - Norhanim binti Abdul Samat
AU  - Muhammad Akmal bin Ayob
AU  - Syahrul Azwan bin Shaedid
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/22
TI  - Friendship Among Roommates – First Year Students’ Experience in a Malaysia Public University
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Student and Disable Student Development 2019 (ICoSD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 141
EP  - 147
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200921.024
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200921.024
ID  - @Ahmad2020
ER  -