Single Subject Design

Lisa Gaston, a 27 year old female is the subject of this research design. Lisa is employed with the Dallas Police Department as a police officer. She is also an enlisted member of the Air Force reserve. She is a Louisiana native and obtained her bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Southern A&M University in Baton Rouge, LA. She spends her free time serving her community with her sorority sisters of Delta Sigma Theta and empowering young African American women in underserved communities by hosting free events within their neighborhoods. Over the years she has developed a habit of smoking to manage stress and she would like to reduce her smoking so that she can live a healthier life style. This single subject research design will use meditation as an intervention to help her to reduce her smoking habits.

The single- subject design was used because the researcher paired the students to compare the students that received treatment in comparison to the students that did not receive treatment (Whitfield, 1999).

Stress can come from anything we do in our daily lives, even if it is a positive or negative change. To measure the amount of stress a single event can cause two men named Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe came up with the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. Over time this scale has been modified to accommodated for

(February 2014) Similar to this study I used a stress scale although, I reduced mine to a scale between: 1-5. “5” being the highest level of stress. The Stress in America study used a Perceived Stress Scale that participants self-monitored their stress levels by answering where they would answer such questions as “how often have you felt irritable and angry in the last month” and they could answer,(very often, sometimes, never etc.) For my purposes I asked myself the following three questions and used the following rating system to determine my stress levels that day.(Angus, n.d.)

Our book describes stress as “any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one’s well-being and tax one’s coping ability” (Weiten, 2014). Stress is not necessarily a traumatic, life destroying event. It can be as simple a small change in one’s daily schedule. People will have multiple stresses throughout their lifetime. Some will be little and daily, but overtime these add up and can affect you in many ways. Stress can be positive or negative and can take many forms; a few being frustration, internal conflict, change, and pressure. All of which make almost a daily appearance in my life (Weiten, 2014).

I needed to reduce my stress level if I wanted to get an A in the class. I used two coping strategies to overcome the stress I had. The strategies were emotion-focused coping and problem-focused coping. First, I decided to look

Stress and anxiety management is a vital necessity for most university students. Luckily, for Rockhurst nursing students, we are provided with tips to building our own anxiety toolkit to help us manage our stress effectively. The stress toolkit provided us with a variety of resources to help us cope with critical stress manageably. In addition to coping with the stresses, we must first identify the major stresses in our everyday lives. Two major stresses in my life currently include; finding a balance between school, family, and desired activities, and the dreaded school work itself. However, the stress management and anxiety toolkit can benefit me through coping strategies to overcome these stresses in life. Strategies that I can use to aid

Not just stress, but stress and its effects on students, particularly students of Massey. I know that almost all of the people in this room have felt the effects of stress, especially with the SciCan posters due today and speeches going on. I’ll even bet that there are students in this room who only finished their poster today. And I’d win that bet because that’s what I did. This topic is one that many can relate too, and

Define this type of research design and justify your answer with reference to the actual experiment.

Stress has a big impact on people’s mental and physical health, the way in which people cope with stress can protect them from illness. Throughout life, people are faced

Stress is a reality that so many collage students coexist with in their everyday lives. But they do not need to. (Website) 85% of collage students reported that they had felt overwhelmed by everything they had to do at some point in the past year. Collage students do not need to tackle stress while trying to create the foundation of their future. (Same website) 30% of collage students reported that stress had negatively affected their academic performance. Preventing stress in collage life is crucial because it is derogatory towards academia success. There are many unique ways to reduce and prevents stress from overtake collage students life, things like fitness, meditation, and many small quarks that can be picked through

Like many of the questionnaires utilized for research in the articles used for this literature review, it was anonymous, and administered and collected during class. This form of data collection provided high turn in rates allowing researchers to have a wide study scale. According to Hicks, T., & Heastie, S., contrasting levels of stress and coping mechanisms were present in these students. It was noted that traditional college students experience more psychological stress than their nontraditional student counterparts. In addition, during the first year of college, the amount of stress experienced by students is the highest in comparison to stress in the remainder of the years. These results are especially important because it stresses the need for a strong health and wellness center within colleges and universities.

Thesis:  Today I will discuss about sources and effects of student stress and efficient ways to manage this emotional and physical strain.

Stress is no new phenomenon. It’s been around as long as man and has captivated scholars and physicians alike. With the growing demand for degrees in the professional world comes the growth of the number of college students. The relationship between stress and college students has become the subject of on-going research. Several studies show that stress in college students is increasing with time and the authors of those studies are attributing this to an increased number of students. Other research seems to indicate that it isn’t necessarily the stress that is increasing but the awareness of it. Increased awareness of stress, and its unique toll on individuals, allows colleges and students to recognize

Stress is a very common idea that tends to taunt high-schoolers during finals week; after all, finals week is often known as “death week” (Staff). According to a study done by Victoria Tennant, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Education, stress is a neutral feeling that can either be perceived as positive or negative but is generally thought of as negative