The avocations of one hundred college freshmen

Abstract

Forty-five forms of recreation of 100 college freshmen (20 from each quintile of intelligence test scores) reported for a period of a month, show that: (1) the brighter students show a greater preference for reading, plays and dances; (2) as a whole the boys studied tend to prefer sedentary avocations which are apt to be amusing rather than recreative; (3) 64% of the unsuccessful students exceed the median of participation set by the successful students; (4) the more intelligent boys play about 25% more and have a greater variety of activities than the less intelligent; (5) excessive indulgence is an almost certain bar to high scholarship, and in combination with low intelligence is just as certain to lead to exclusion. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)