Research Blog #4 :Your Research Proposal
Working Title: Why are students facing bad mental health in College?
Topic:
The topic I will be exploring is the issue of students facing anxiety in college and the inability to balance priorities due to the systematic disadvantages that universities unknowingly inflict upon students. Several factors come into role when it comes to determining the factors that lead to the cause of anxiety whether it be interpersonal/intrapersonal experiences, academic, environmental, and or familial sources. Balancing out school with family, self interests, sports, and or a social life can be difficult and more frequently stressful and intense. Over time uncontrollable anxiety can begin to interfere with student’s daily routine causing them to feel drained which can later on take a toll on their academic fulfillment. Environmental stressors can take anxiety a step up and can lead to panic attacks. Many students who feel pressured by school and these other factors often keep to themselves and suppress their emotions making anxiety a target for depression and or other underlying mental health disorders. Other than balancing, many students barely squeeze in time for rest due to so many things going on in their college life. As a result, the lack of sleep can have an affect on students state of mind and can affect the way they perform in school. Some students go at least a day without sleep; taking a toll on both student’s mental and physical health. The privatization of college further affects students, especially those of lower income and immigrants because besides the factors stated before, now they have to worry about student debt and paying for college; a problem not all students face in college.
Research Question:
What are the underlying factors that causes students to face Anxiety In College?
Theoretical Frame:
Through these readings I was able to infer that both stressors pertaining to college as well as the environment can conflict a student with anxiety. Shannon states the stressors that students face in her article “SOURCES OF STRESS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS” that “the dynamic relationship between the person and environment in stress perception and reaction is especially magnified in college students...While jobs outside of the university setting involve their own sources of stress, such as evaluation by superiors and striving for goals, the continuous evaluation that college students are subjected to, such as weekly tests and papers, is one which is not often seen by non-students” (Wright, 1964). As we can see external factors such as jobs can add on to the stress of school; external factor being the environment. Verbalizing these pressured thoughts can affect a student's mental health, and lead to a bad academic record. In Lewis’s article “Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety” he claims that suppressed students who come from lower income based families can not voice their anxiety properly because if they act out they’ll be labeled wrongly: “And yet addressing anxiety is low on the priority list in many economically disadvantaged communities. Kids who “act out” are often labeled defiant or aggressive, while those who keep to themselves — anxiety specialists call them “silent sufferers” — are overlooked or mistaken for being shy.” Disadvantaged students feel more inclined to fail due to the environment and college factors than other students.
Case Study
In the article SOURCES OF STRESS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS, there is underlying evidence of students facing anxiety that will help me develop my argument about the different factors of stress amongst students. The authors talk about how the transition from highschool to college can be a prone to bringing stress upon students. These authors further include stressors such as interpersonal conflicts, self-esteem problems, and money problems that can further broaden my perspectives on the different stressors that are prevalent among college students.
Working Bibliography
Denizet-lewis, Benoit. “Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?” The New York Times, The New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/magazine/why-are-more-american-teenagers-than-ever-suffering-from-severe-anxiety.html.
“Mental Health on College Campuses: Investments, Accommodations Needed to Address Student Needs.” NCD.gov, ncd.gov/publications/2017/mental-health-college-campuses-investments-accommodations-needed-address-student.
Dana Becker
http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/13/does-stress-hide-deeper-social-problems/
Vincent Calabrese
James B.Steele - Lance Williams\
work on the bibliography
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