Ronald Tekaki's Hiroshima

ABSTRACT

As two female researchers and students, with a multitude of responsibilities and goals we are working towards, our interest lead us toward researching something of relevance to our own lives and experiences. Having both had involved, romantic monogamous relationships while maintaining part-time work schedules as full-time students, our curiosity led us to inquire whether female students involved in monogamous relationships were more, or less, capable of maintaining a higher cumulative GPA than male student’s under similar circumstances.

We decided to approach this study by comparing the cumulative GPA (grade point average) of male and female students involved in romantic, monogamous relationships while studying full-time and working at least part-time. Our purpose was to see if male students were more in order to see if there was any difference between male and female GPA’s.

The significance of this study is to see if there is any benefit to a student’s success and livelihood in having a monogamous relationship while studying in college. We have incorporated the aspect of gender within our study as the main premise of our experiment. We are curious is female students are able to balance a romantic life more effectively than male students, and whether or not we can interpret this as being more involved or less involved in such relationships. Our study sought to gauge whether monogamous relationships had any sort of benefit on a student’s ability to succeed in college, or whether monogamous, involved relationships were a hindrance on a student’s success, as related to gender. As female students, we naturally interpret our gender to be more capable of prioritizing our responsibilities. Such as, our class assignments and time management, in order to more effectively ensure that our relationships were not having a negative impact on our grades in the attainment of our goals.

Our null hypothesis states that there is no difference between male and female students cumulative GPA’s who are involved in monogamous relationships. Our alternate hypothesis states that female’s will have a higher cumulative GPA than male students cumulative GPA who are involved in monogamous relationships.

The method of our study was through a cluster sample via survey, in the

C-building at Pasadena City College, where we focused closely around the Social Science Division. Here, we surveyed both male and female students, asking them such questions as their age, how long they