CHRONOLOGICAL CHANGES IN COLLEGE-STUDENTS VIEW OF LIFE

This study examined the changes in college students' view of life thro ugh three periods: the 1960s, 80s, and 90s. Approximately 3 000 studen ts at a liberal arts college responded at least once during the period s to a questionnaire with 13 descriptions (13 Ways to Live; Morris, 19 56). Factor analyses, with principal component analysis and varimax ro tation, found four factors that were common to the three subject group s. An examination of factor scores revealed that the first factor, ''S ympathy and Service,'' decreased while the Fourth, ''Comfort and Varie ty,'' increased in the 80s and 90s, suggesting that an individualistic yet conforming tendency became more prominent in the latter periods t han the 60s. While the third factor, ''Active Action,'' increased duri ng the Four college years in the 60s, it decreased in the 80s. These c hanges may have reflected the campus unrest in the 60s and the subsequ ent student apathy in the 80s. A recent increase in the fourth factor, especially among sophomores, seems to reflect the current characteris tics in college students' view of life, namely a ''moratorium'' tenden cy.