The nature and extent of college student hazing

Affiliation.

  • 1 College of Education and Human Development, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA. [email protected]
  • PMID: 22909916
  • DOI: 10.1515/ijamh.2012.012

Background: This study explored the nature and extent of college student hazing in the USA. Hazing, a form of interpersonal violence, can jeopardize the health and safety of students.

Methods: Using a web-based survey, data were collected from 11,482 undergraduate students, aged 18-25 years, who attended one of 53 colleges and universities. Additionally, researchers interviewed 300 students and staff at 18 of the campuses.

Results: Results reveal hazing among USA college students is widespread and involves a range of student organizations and athletic teams. Alcohol consumption, humiliation, isolation, sleep-deprivation and sex acts are hazing practices common across student groups. Furthermore, there is a large gap between the number of students who report experience with hazing behaviors and those that label their experience as hazing.

Conclusions: To date, hazing prevention efforts in post-secondary education have focused largely on students in fraternities/sororities and intercollegiate athletes. Findings from this study can inform development of more comprehensive and research-based hazing prevention efforts that target a wider range of student groups. Further, data can serve as a baseline from which to measure changes in college student hazing over time.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Alcoholic Intoxication / psychology
  • Bullying / psychology*
  • Sexual Behavior / psychology
  • Sleep Deprivation / psychology
  • Students / psychology*
  • Students / statistics & numerical data*
  • Universities / statistics & numerical data*
  • Violence / statistics & numerical data*
  • Young Adult

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