Be. Fuller et Fj. Hall, DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY TYPE AND ROOMMATE COMPATIBILITY AS PREDICTORS OF ROOMMATE CONFLICT, Journal of college student development, 37(5), 1996, pp. 510-518
In this study of 20 male and 18 female first-year roommate pairs, thre
e versions of the Roommate Compatibility Questionnaire were more predi
ctive of roommate conflict than the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator The di
screpancy between perception of a roommate and a description of an ide
al roommate predicted the most variance on a measure of roommate confl
ict. For women, the difference between two roommates on measures of se
lf characteristics predicted additional variance in roommate conflict.
Roommate-matching strategies based on these measures are discussed.