San Diego State University Academic Stress Among College Students Articles Questions

Journal Article Summary—Lab 8

Karaman et al., 2017 “Predictors of Academic Stress Among College Students”

Focus: Basis for correlation hypothesis between academic stress & Life Satisfaction

Please read your entire article before starting this assignment.

1. What was the research question? And why is it an important question to ask (hint: title, abstract, and introduction)
2. What were the main variables of interest? How were they measured/operationally defined? (hint: introduction and method)
3. Who were the participants? How did they recruit them? (hint: method)
4. What type of research design (e.g., observational, correlational, experimental) did the authors use? (hint: method)
5. What were the findings? Were hypotheses supported/partially supported/not at all supported? What could they conclude about the research question? (hint: results and discussion)
6. Based on the results, what real world application does this study have? (hint: discussion)
7. How might this apply to your hypotheses? What kind of hypothesis might you be able to write after reading this paper? What specific questions on the class survey are related? 

Reference

Write the APA-style reference for this paper. (hint: refer back to Writing With Style)

Journal Article Summary—Lab 8

Global Life Satisfaction in Adolescence – The Role of Personality Traits, Self-Esteem, and Self-Efficacy

Focus: Basis for group difference hypothesis will be based on: an article you find on locus of control (external or internal attribution) differences in life satisfaction

OR an article you find on extraversion/introversion differences in life satisfaction

Please read your entire article before starting this assignment.

Copy/paster DOI link here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308093637…

1. What was the research question? And why is it an important question to ask (hint: title, abstract, and introduction)
2. What were the main variables of interest? How were they measured/operationally defined? (hint: introduction and method)
3. Who were the participants? How did they recruit them? (hint: method)
4. What type of research design (e.g., observational, correlational, experimental) did the authors use? (hint: method)
5. What were the findings? Were hypotheses supported/partially supported/not at all supported? What could they conclude about the research question? (hint: results and discussion)
6. Based on the results, what real world application does this study have? (hint: discussion)
7. How might this apply to your hypotheses? What kind of hypothesis might you be able to write after reading this paper? What specific questions on the class survey are related?