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- Title
TOWARD A BROADER UNDERSTANDING OF FRATERNITY - DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING A MEASURE OF FRATERNAL BROTHERHOOD.
- Authors
MCCREARY, GENTRY; SCHUTTS, JOSHUA
- Abstract
The function of brotherhood as an element of the fraternal experience has been largely ignored in the literature of higher education. This study seeks to understand how fraternity members define and conceptualize brotherhood and to develop an instrument aimed at quantitatively measuring notions of brotherhood. This mixed-methods study is divided into two parts: (1) Part 1 employs a grounded-theory, qualitative approach to understanding how fraternity members define and conceptualize brotherhood, and (2) Part 2 employs three separate quantitative studies aimed at developing and validating a measure of the concept of brotherhood in fraternities. The findings of the study indicate that fraternity membership elicits four distinct schema of brotherhood - solidarity, shared social experiences, belonging, and accountability. The Fraternal Brotherhood Questionnaire (FBQ) is developed to measure these four schemas. Initial exploratory factor analysis (EFA) reveals a four factor solution explaining 64 percent of the variance. A subsequent EFA of a modified version of the FBQ reveals a four factor solution explaining 67 percent of variance in the overall model. Confirmatory factor analysis reveals a parsimonious four factor model of fraternal brotherhood.
- Subjects
BROTHERHOODS; GREEK letter societies -- Social aspects; FRATERNAL organizations; SOCIAL groups; MEN'S societies &; clubs
- Publication
Oracle: The Research Journal of the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors, 2015, Vol 10, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
2165-7858
- Publication type
Article