Stress Survey Jamie Blondina Chelsea Leaman MaryJane Fuhrer Allie Robbins

STUDY POPULATION -Athletes/ non-athletes of Rowan -Commuters and students on campus of Rowan

Research questions 1. Does being an athlete or non-athlete effect the stress levels among students at Rowan University? 2. Do students living on campus have higher stress levels than those that commute and live at home? What causes more stress to those on campus and those off campus?

REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE - What is stress? - Negative Stress - Positive Stress - Know how to deal with your own stress

REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE -What is academic Stress? - Employment during/ after schooling - Financial Stability - Freshman aren’t as worried as senior for job opportunities after graduation

REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE - Positive Correlations between college stress and study conditions - Interpersonal relationships between students an friends can cause stress - Alcohol is the main bond between friendships - Anxiety to adapting to new setting and forming new friendships

Review of the literature - Can be a huge problem and cause long- term damage - Many ways to deal with stress in a healthy way - Time management - Insel and Roth - Elizabeth

Methods SUBJECTS In our survey, we found information from 100 students. Students were required to be from Rowan University and were from ages Approximately 50 of the students were athletes that are apart of a division 3 Rowan University sports team. The other 50 students that were surveyed were non-athletes.

METHODS procedures When handing out our survey we all decided it would be best to do it by hand rather than virtually. This way we knew that each person was definitely receiving the survey and could not say they didn’t get an . Our process in handing out each survey may be a little different than most groups. For our survey we had two variables: students vs. athletes. Since I play on the Rowan Women’s Lacrosse team I will be distributing the surveys to my teammates as well as other teams within athletics. As for the regular students we will be distributing them by walking door-to-door in Rowan Boulevard (where most of us live) and handing the survey out individually to each student. Rather than wait for each student to fill out the survey I will tell each student to slip the survey under my apartment door when they are finished. By giving each student their space, they are more likely to be honest when taking the survey rather than being nervous of me judging them when standing there. Once we receive all of our surveys back we will all sit down together and go over our collected data.

methods instrumentation For our study population we have decided to create and hand out a survey of questions to better assess our subjects. The survey is made up of multiple choice questions, which survey qualitative and quantitative information. We have narrowed the survey to three separate questions to further the accuracy of our survey. Below you will find a sample of the survey we will be handing out to our study population.

methods data analysis The data analysis of our survey included quantitative and qualitative questions. Once we have gathered information from our surveys, we will analyze the data by going through ourselves and dividing them into groups. After separating the males and the females we will further place them in into groups of athletes and non-athletes. Age and grade of the participants will also be taken in to consideration. Another factor we will look at is if the person is a commuter or lives on Rowan’s campus. We will compare the answers of all these groups and determine how being in a certain group effects the answers of the individuals. The qualitative responses will show us how many students have similar open-ended answers. While the quantitative will show us which is the most common based on the specific answers we provide. We will project our data in an excel chart including all components. The chart will clearly show the variation of answers between all groups we included in our study.

Gender

Age

Grade

Do you play a sport?

how many hours of studying?

Hours of sleep per night

Where do you study?

What gives you the most stress?

Roommates more stressful? 58%-YES 43%-NO

Do college students turn to alcohol/drugs to relieve stress?