Ouantitaive Research: Stress Among College Students

Through personal experience, we each found that students who were in college are likely to report feeling stress.   We tend to find a significant difference between college students with jobs and college students without jobs.   Based on prior knowledge, we know that acute stress can be related to small daily hassles, while chronic stress takes place when several environmental stressors continue to be a worry for a long period of time, like finances and schoolwork.   Emotional stress, such as anxiety, is also connected to academic stress.   Students who work are exposed to more occurrences of stress.   For all of the reasons listed previously, we hope to see that our study will yield to our prediction, that students with jobs will report feeling more stressed than students without jobs.   Within our study we will research the following questions: How does working and going to school contribute to stress among college students; Are the grades of college students who work at least 20 hours per week affected?
The affects of working while in college varies by the type of job held: full-time versus part-time.   Negative effects typically occur because of hours spent at work take time away from studying, which may lead to lower grades.   Working may contribute to students dropping out of college or taking a longer time to graduate.   But student employment can also be a positive experience.   Some students may gain experience at their job that helps push them harder in the classroom.   Many students also may feel as if there is no impact on them physically or mentally by trying to balance a job and school.   Within our other study, we feel as if that a student with no job excel further in academics than students who work at least 20 hours per week.
Employment and academics generally harms grades and is stressful.   These effects depend on being a part-time or full-time student, how many classes the student is taking, how many hours per week they work, how many hours of sleep they... [continues]

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